Camp Pendleton News

When 18-year-old Chuck Vining boarded a train in Chicago, bound for Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, he looked up at the platform where his father was waving and saw tears streaming down his face.

When he was little, Kevin Netto Jr. would be the one to roust his parents out of bed Christmas morning, anxious to find out what Santa left him under the tree.

Gordon England, then deputy secretary of defense, is shown in 2006 at a convention that focused on issues facing American Muslims and their evolving role and identity in the U.S. AP The jihadist threat to U.S.-based armed forces is external as well as internal a ' and far greater than reported.

The Pentagon has confirmed what ABC11 Eyewitness News first reported last week - that Marines from Camp Lejeune will be part of the troop surge President Barack Obama has ordered for Afghanistan.

A soldier from the 10th Mountain Division looks through a scope towards the enemy position near Shigal village in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.

Ryan Pape graduated from high school the day after his older brother, Marine Cpl.

The Pentagon has announced about 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune will leave for Afghanistan later this month.

General McChrystal, Commander of NATO and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador were in front of the Armed Service Committee s elling President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy.

The Pentagon has announced about 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune will leave for Afghanistan later this month.

Aaron Aamot was fifth in a family of eight children and grew up in a small town called Custer - a place his father referred to as the "backside of the sticks." There, in north Washington state, Aamot was in the 4-H Club and Future Farmers of America program.

The Pentagon says about 16,000 U.S. troops will go into Afghanistan in the first wave of the new surge approved by President Barack Obama.

A family has lost a second son after a decorated Marine was killed in a parachute training exercise at Camp Pendleton, according to military officials.

An East Grand Forks, Minn., family has lost a second military son to a noncombat incident.

Thanksgiving hosted at East Lake Village by local For Families of Active Military group.

US military: airstrike kills 1 in northeast Iraq AP - The U.S. military says an American airstrike killed one gunman after a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol was attacked northeast of Baghdad.

Marines at Camp Pendleton will be part of the troop buildup in Afghanistan , expected to be announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday night.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:43 a.m. Nelvin C. Cepeda / Union-Tribune Gen. David Petraeus visited the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Gulf of Oman on Thanksgiving.

DANVILLE, Ind. -- Last summer, a missed phone call from her Marine husband training for deployment in Iraq left Monica Cripe in tears.

Reporting from Nawa, Afghanistan - A long, dusty road under a bright blue Afghan sky.

Cynthia Fleming holds up a 2003 photo of herself and her dead son, Marine Lance Cpl.