The 600,000-acre base is located in the Southern California desert, and provides troops ... Soon after it was put to use by the US Army and Marines — in Afghanistan in 2007, and Iraq in 2008.

General Alexander Vandegrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, had been fighting the Japanese at Guadalcanal for over four months under less than desirable conditions: they were surrounded by the ...

Buried within the government bureaucracy of a lease changing hands is the broader uncertainty of what sweeping changes and ...