The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Sign up A young Marine in uniform looking at the camera with the U.S. flag as a backdrop. Courtesy U.S ...

Family visit day at the Marine Corp training center in San Diego just before he graduated from boot camp. His sister is Chloe Durham. (Photo courtesy of Gisele Durham) “Wherever he was at ...

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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Marine officials at Camp Pendleton today identified Sgt. Jacob M. Durham as a U.S. Marine involved in a fatal aircraft incident on Feb. 6, in the Philippine Province of ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. Marine from California was identified by military officials Sunday as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a ...

Here are things to know about the plane crash, which is one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years. The plane was reported missing near Nome Officials said contact with the Cessna ...

All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced ...