Camp Pendleton News

A beach at Camp Pendleton has been closed after about 18,000 gallons spilled from the main sewer line at the Marine Corps base in northern San Diego County.

Officials at the base said the leak was caused by a vehicle crashing into a main valve in the sewage system.

"The Few, The proud." The United State Marine Corps was established November 10, 1775 in the early days of the American Revolution.

The board of trustees decided at a meeting last week to continue gathering community comment on the bond, which could go before voters in November.

United States Marine Sgt. Philip A. McCulloch Jr., right, is congratulated by Brigadier General Daniel D. Yoo, after receiving the Silver Star medal for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action" while serving in Afghanistan during a ceremony at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot Friday, Feb.

CAMP PENDLETON - Crews worked Friday to contain a fire that blackened swaths of brushy open land on a firing range at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps spokesman reported.

The deputy who shot and killed an unarmed Marine sergeant after a predawn traffic stop said the Marine was acting so "irrationally" that it seemed dangerous to let him drive away with his two daughters, an official said Friday.

' Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol.

A Marine Sergeant from Joliet was shot to death by a California sheriff's deputy.

The Corps said in a statement that using the symbol was not acceptable. But a spokeswoman at Camp Pendleton said the SS symbol was meant to represent sniper scouts and never intended to associate themselves with a racist organization.

The fire was reported as being approximately 25 acres and growing in steep terrain and heavy vegetation, said Bill Gick, a Fire Inspector at the Camp Pendleton Fire Department.

A memorial service will be held at the University of Washington for a 23-year-old Marine who was killed Jan.

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The Marine Corps confirmed Thursday that one of its scout sniper teams in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS.

The Marine who was shot and killed by an Orange County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop at San Clemente High School on Tuesday has been identified as Sgt.

A Marine from Camp Pendleton was killed in an early morning confrontation with an Orange County sheriff's deputy, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday.

Share/Bookmark55 years ago - " 1957 US Marines from Camp Pendleton moved into the Dark Canyon-Pine Flats area to begin a series of winter maneuver operations in the snow.

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The Marine Corps Association & Foundation was front and center with a presence at the Marine West Expo at Camp Pendleton California at the end of January and early February.

Service members and others help out in San Clemente to raise donations for troops from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, which will return to Camp Pendleton from Afghanistan in April.