On the afternoon of Thursday, 12 October 2023, Coast Guard Sector San Diego personnel respond to a medical emergency aboard a charter fishing vessel christened Legend, then approximately 48-nautical-miles off the Pacific Coast of Southern California’s Point Loma. At approximately 13:00 PDT, Coast Guard Sector San Diego watchstanders received a distress call from a Legend crew-member reporting a 79-year-old male passenger had lost consciousness and fallen. The victim’s symptoms were consistent with a cardiac event.
In late-September 2023, the first contingent of legacy fighter aircraft operated by the United States Marine Corps’ famed Red Devils Fighter Attack Squadron 232 arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni—a USMC installation located in the Nishiki river delta southeast of the city of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The F/A-18C and F/A-18D Hornets, all sporting Raytheon’s APG-79(V)4 advanced combat radar system, will be operated from MCAS Iwakuni as part of a six-month unit deployment.
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