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The fleet, the Corps and the veterans: America's largest military concentration, and the city around it.

SAN DIEGO

VA San Diego lands fourth quarter funding for elevators, substations and the record system

The VA San Diego Healthcare System received a fourth quarter round of federal maintenance funding, the VA announced on Monday, covering four projects at the Jennifer Moreno VA Medical Center campus: electronic health record infrastructure, four modernized elevators, a renovated west entrance patio, and a replacement primary substation on electrical gear the VA dates back 50 years.

San Diego Chronicle · Oct. 20
CAMP PENDLETON

Henderson Fire reaches 3,132 acres on Saturday, October 17, and holds at 20 percent containment

Cal Fire's 6:35 a.m. update added more than a thousand acres to the Camp Pendleton fire's mapped footprint overnight, while containment stayed at the 20 percent crews first reached on Friday evening. Interstate 5 stayed open on Saturday morning.

San Diego Chronicle · Oct. 17
MIRAMAR

Miramar is the city's front porch to the military

The 2026 air show ran September 25 through 27 at the Marine Corps air station in the middle of the city. For a weekend, the fence line disappeared.

San Diego Chronicle · Sept. 28
POINT LOMA

A submarine's new homeport is Point Loma

The USS Springfield arrived in San Diego in July, shifting her homeport to Point Loma and joining Submarine Squadron 11.

San Diego Chronicle · Sept. 17