Long Beach was a Navy town long before the Naval Station existed: in 1919 the Pacific Fleet's battleships made it their West Coast home port, and in 1928 the big carriers USS Saratoga and USS...
Navy medicine at Camp Pendleton started in September 1943 as U.S. Naval Hospital Santa Margarita, a spread of temporary wood-frame buildings near Lake O'Neill. It went up fast on 252 acres of the old...
Look under the caduceus on this patch and you will find two signal flags, Hotel and Mike, which spell out HM in flag hoist. Hotel is split white and red, and Mike is a white X on blue, and every...