Fleet Week Coronado Speed Festival

16 IS SWEET!

The 16th annual Fleet Week Coronado Speed Festival – “The Race at the Base” – is…

Another in a regular series of fascinating, intriguing, or thoughtful tales about people and places in Nado history -- presented by your Coronado Historical Association

Coronado’s greatest spectacle ever?  Probably.…

How's this for a great Parachute Demonstration at the Hotel del Coronado?  Jumpers are Andy Crout-Hamel, JC Ledbetter and Nix White.  All three are…

CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The Navy on Thursday inaugurated its first squadron with both manned and unmanned aircraft amid debate over the military's burgeoning use of drones in warfare.

Military officials launched the effort by reactivating the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 35, known as the "Magicians," which served for 19 years before being deactivated in 1992.

The new squadron "points to the future of naval aviation," Vice Admiral David H. Buss, commander of naval…

The Maritime Museum of San Diego (MMSD) has added another Navy vessel, Patrol Craft, Fast (PCF) 816, commonly known as Swift boats, used during the Vietnam War. This boat had been serving in the Malta Coast Guard and the MMSD and Swift Boat Sailors Association. were able to repatriate it a…

Commander Naval Air Forces Pacific Fleet, Headquarters at NAS North Island, said in a recent letter in reply to an query:



"Why do helos fly down Coronado Central Beach at about 200 feet altitude when the weather is good, and when  there are hundreds of people and families on the beach and surf in the warm weather?"



There were Navy and City rules established in the recent past forbidding…

CORONADO — The littoral combat ship Coronado will be commissioned in its namesake city early next year, a citizens group announced this week.

The Coronado, the second of the Navy’s new trimaran littoral vessels, was built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., and is now going through builder’s trials.

The ship is expected to arrive in San Diego in January…

Former Air Force Vice Chief of Staff to

Addresses Coronado Roundtable

If say the North Korean, Iranian or Peoples Republic of China (pick your own “bad government”) was to attack the computers controlling our electrical power grid or the network which control the movement of water to Southern California, how disruptive would that be to the average citizen? Expand this question to an attack against these systems…

COLONEL OLIN W. JONES, JR., USMC (Ret)

Celebrated Soldier, Legal Officer, Family Man…

By Lt. Danielle Monteil

staff pediatrician, Naval Hospital Pensacola

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Not unlike the currently estimated two million military children, my childhood reads like one huge road trip. Beeville, Texas, Coronado, Calif., Orange Park, Fla., Coronado, Calif., San Diego., Newport, R.I., Belleview, Neb., Pensacola, Fla., Mayport, Fla., Montgomery, Ala., Pensacola, Fla. The average military child moves between six and nine times during their school years alone. As we…

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 The Sand Dollar Shops are run by the Naval Officers’ Spouses’ Club of San Diego (NOSC) and are located at Naval Air Station North Island and Naval Medical Center San Diego. NOSC San Diego is a wonderful organization that not only raises funds for local charities and scholarships for military children and spouses, but also provides social and cultural opportunities for military spouses living in the San Diego…

Fire broke out aboard the littoral combat ship Coronado late Friday morning while the vessel was on its second day of sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. Navy official confirmed Saturday.

No one was injured in the accident, and early indications are that the damage was minor, the official said.

The incident happened as the ship was conducting a full power demonstration and running at high speed. Insulation on the starboard diesel exhaust first smoldered, then ignited but,…

SAN DIEGO — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to reduce the sentences of five defendants who were sentenced to prison for their roles in a multimillion-dollar bribery ring at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado.

Each of the five were sentenced in October to terms ranging from 18 months to 41 months in federal prison. In March, following a trial where all five testified…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Navy has cancelled the remaining 2013 performances of its Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels. The squadron will continue to train to maintain flying proficiency until further notice at its home station in Pensacola, Fla.



Recognizing budget…

UT San Diego

SD's Decatur on watch against N. Korea

Destroyer on way home when called for missile defense

The San Diego-based destroyer Decatur is providing defense against ballistic missiles from North Korea, as tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula.

Defense Department spokesman George Little said Tuesday that the Decatur has joined the Japan-based destroyer John S. McCain on watch in the…

A small section of road in Coronado, passing from Orange Avenue to Ocean Boulevard, is named R. H. Dana Place.  Does anyone know why?

R H Dana

Richard Henry Dana, for whom the street is named, came to San Diego in the early eighteen hundreds, long before the idea of the…

Another in a regular series of fascinating, intriguing, or thoughtful tales about people and places in Nado history -- presented by your Coronado Historical Association

In the 1920s nothing…