Camp Pendleton

A helicopter burned at Camp Pendleton on Friday after it was forced to make an emergency landing. Macy Jenkins reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2024.

Everybody aboard the helicopter was able to get out safely after the landing, according to a CHP spokesman.

The Marines were killed when their Osprey experienced hard-clutch engagement, a known problem with the tilt-rotor aircraft that has happened more than a dozen times since 2010.

A U.S. Marine was killed when an Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) crashed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Tuesday night, the U.S. Marine Corps said Wednesday.

A Camp Pendleton-based U.S. Marine student died this week during a nighttime training exercise at the northern San Diego County military installation, a USMC official confirmed Friday.

New documents obtained Tuesday by NBC 7 detail accusations against a Camp Pendleton Marine accused of sexually assaulting a missing 14-year-old girl found in the barracks.

A Marine with the 1st Logistics Marine Group was taken into custody for questioning but has not been arrested or formally charged in the case, which is being investigated by Naval Criminal Investigative Services.

A Marine has been questioned by investigators after a 14-year-old girl was found in the Camp Pendleton barracks last month, two weeks after her grandmother in San Diego reported she had run away from home, officials said Monday.

Three Camp Pendleton-based Marines and a fourth person were killed in a crash Saturday morning in Downey, California, a base spokesperson confirmed.