Camp Pendleton News

A tearful memorial ceremony was held at a Coast Guard station in Sacramento for seven crew members who were killed in a mid-air crash.

With bitter cold winds lashing at their faces yesterday morning, hundreds of North Attleborough High School students stood in silence while the hearse carrying Marine Captain Kyle Rolf Van De Giesen's coffin drove by the front of their school.

The 478th Transportation Company based at Camp Pendleton, was at Fort Hood during Thursday's shooting rampage.

San Diego 's military installations were not on heightened alert Thursday after a mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.

Reporting from San Diego - There are 136,707 military reservists and National Guard members on active duty, the Pentagon reported last week.

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David 'Seth' Mitchell was known as 'Mr. Personality' when he was president of the senior Class of 1997 at Loveland High School.

A Camp Pendleton-based Marine died in combat Wednesday in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, bringing the total number of local Marines killed this week to five, base officials said today.

Chalk up another bull's-eye for the Marine Corps. On Friday, Camp Pendleton is celebrating a big win over the Army, a traditional military rival.

By Ben Feller ASSOCIATED PRESS Camp Pendleton honors one of its own: Staff Sgt. Clayton Rue knelt at a Camp Pendleton memorial yesterday to Staff Sgt.

A Marine captain and San Luis Obispo High School alumnus is recovering in a hospital in Germany after he lost one of his lower legs and suffered other serious injuries in a helicopter crash Monday in Afghanistan.

As of Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, at least 814 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

The observation of Red Ribbon Week begins Oct. 23 and continues through Oct. 31. "Looking forward, there's a lot of challenges in front of us," Army Col.

Jhane Price with the Tehama County Young Marines out of Red Bluff, Calif., recites a poem she wrote to promote living drug free during the Red Ribbon Week kickoff event at the Pentagon, Oct.

A Kearney native is back on solid ground after spending more than a year on the waters of the Persian Gulf.

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel who died in Afghanistan: George W. Cauley, 24, of Walker, Minn.; specialist, Army National Guard.

Sailors guided a "lighterage" boat carrying cargo containers to shore at Camp Pendleton's Red Beach yesterday during an exercise to sharpen the Navy and Marines' amphibious- assault skills.

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Isabella Norris, 6, sat on the shoulders of her flute-playing mentor, Army Sgt. Don Francisco, and carried a balloon with a note to her father.

Vitaliy Rusavskiy MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Training Support Division aboard Camp Pendleton is raising the bar when it comes to training simulators.