Military

US service members are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, according to the latest numbers from the Department of Defense. The Assistant Defense Secretary for Health Affairs, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, said COVID-19 spikes in the military are mirroring the spikes seen among civilians in Florida, Texas, and parts of California. Military COVID-19 cases r...

With thousands of U.S. troops still in Afghanistan, the reports of Russian bounties on Americans’ heads are, of course, of huge interest to San Diegans. NBC 7 political reporter Danny Freeman spoke with two national security and military experts about what questions they have and where the story goes from here.

A U.S. Navy veteran and longtime volunteer at the San Diego Air and Space Museum has died after sharing his aviation expertise with workers and visitors for nearly 37 years. Jim Weir, 99, started volunteering in the restoration shop in the basement of the formerly-named San Diego Aerospace Museum in 1984, the museum said. Over the decades, he docum...

June 27 is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (PTSD), an important day to shed some light on something that affects so many, especially our military.

There’s a new debate on the heels of the push to rename U.S. military bases named after confederate leaders — Should a U.S. aircraft carrier named after a U.S. senator who fought against civil rights be renamed?

NBC 7 military reporter Bridget Naso has more on the carrier some say should be renamed because Stennis, based on his voting record, opposed civil rights movements.

A U.S. Army soldier is facing a slew of terrorism charges after allegedly giving classified military information to a white supremacist group with Satanic leanings as part of a deadly plot against members of his own unit, prosecutors said. The charges announced Monday in Manhattan Federal Court allege that Army Private Ethan Melzer gave information...

The 2020 MCAS Miramar Air Show scheduled for late September has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the base announced Monday.

The ship recently returned to sea after being docked in Guam as the 4,800 crew members went through rotations of quarantine after more than 1,000 of them tested positive for the coronavirus.

The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Kansas City via naval message and without the typical crowd Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Independence-variant littoral combat ship arrived at Naval Base San Diego on May 24.

A San Diego affordable housing project was awarded a $9.2 million state grant under a program that funds the construction of apartments and townhomes reserved for qualifying veterans and their families, it was announced Thursday.

Military leaders revealed that Black service members were more likely to face military justice. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso reports.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald has departed from a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., to return to its homeport in San Diego as part of the Pacific Fleet, the Navy announced Saturday.