Naval Air Station North Island
Naval base in San Diego County, CaliforniaWikipedia
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Sep 8, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
They hauled it to a Dutch Harbor beach.
Tail DraggerHOST
They crated it and shipped it to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
Tail DraggerHOST
They repaired it.
Tail DraggerHOST
They painted it in U.S. Navy markings, yellow for the cowl, the whole thing, so no American pilot would make a tragic mistake if it ever got airborne.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It left Thailand Sunday with about 5,000 sailors and Marines on board.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
According to Cruising Earth website, the ship is underway with a reported destination of Naval Air Station San Diego.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It's expected to arrive in late September or early October.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
The Navy says the planned stop in Guam will no longer happen.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It left Thailand Sunday with about 5,000 sailors and Marines on board.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
According to Cruising Earth website, the ship is underway with a reported destination of Naval Air Station San Diego.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It's expected to arrive in late September or early October.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
The Navy says the planned stop in Guam will no longer happen.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It left Thailand Sunday with about 5,000 sailors and Marines on board.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
According to Cruising Earth website, the ship is underway with a reported destination of Naval Air Station San Diego.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It's expected to arrive in late September or early October.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
The Navy says the planned stop in Guam will no longer happen.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It left Thailand Sunday with about 5,000 sailors and Marines on board.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
According to Cruising Earth website, the ship is underway with a reported destination of Naval Air Station San Diego.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
It's expected to arrive in late September or early October.
Bree TennisCORRESPONDENT
The Navy says the planned stop in Guam will no longer happen.
Ron RiveraGUEST
So I got to visit with him going on base and seeing everything.
Ron RiveraGUEST
When I was with the Chargers, he was in San Diego at North Island as the base commander.
Ron RiveraGUEST
And then he ends up leaving, becomes an admiral.
Ron RiveraGUEST
And then we run into each other again in Washington, DC, where he's a three star.
ChrisHOST
So you're still standing under the ship.
ChrisHOST
So she ends up arriving at Naval Air Station San Diego, which was on North Island, and she gets there in time to be featured in this movie called Dive Bomber, which was a World War II movie that starred Errol Flynn.
AdamHOST
Okay.
AdamHOST
I guess it's not imminent use at this point, so we can just be using it in a movie.
Ron RiveraGUEST
So I got to visit with him going on base and seeing everything.
Ron RiveraGUEST
When I was with the Chargers, he was in San Diego at North Island as the base commander.
Ron RiveraGUEST
And then he ends up leaving, becomes an admiral.
Ron RiveraGUEST
And then we run into each other again in Washington, DC, where he's a three star.
Tim HendersonGUEST
So I left.
Tim HendersonGUEST
So actually, when I left Comstock, I wound up going to NAS North Island, the NMC in North Island.
Tim HendersonGUEST
Um, I did three years there.
Tim HendersonGUEST
And again, when you go to the NMC, you're just, you're kind of just a commodity manager for the Navy.
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Tim HendersonGUEST
I was there for another three years.
Tim HendersonGUEST
So I was there for three years and here's an interesting story, right? So I was getting ready to come to the end.
Tim HendersonGUEST
I think I was, I think I had like about maybe 10 or 11 months left at NAS North Island.
Tim HendersonGUEST
And one of the individuals there was going to the SEAL teams down the street.
Richard WrightGUEST
So I started thinking about other things, and I'd always been attracted to aviation.
Richard WrightGUEST
When we were stationed in San Diego, we lived in Coronado next to North Island.
Richard WrightGUEST
I would ride my bicycle up to the runway at North Island and spend the day watching aircraft landing and taking off from the runway there.
Richard WrightGUEST
And I hate to admit this, but a lot of the aircraft I saw coming in are now museum pieces in various museums.
Richard WrightGUEST
But that was always in the back of my mind.
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