{"id":244688,"date":"2026-03-31T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244688\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:41:12","slug":"san-diegos-uss-boxer-stops-in-hawaii-en-route-to-transporting-camp-pendleton-marines-to-middle-east-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244688\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s USS Boxer stops in Hawaii en route to transporting Camp Pendleton Marines to Middle East \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego-based amphibious assault ship USS Boxer pulled into Pearl Harbor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WarshipCam\/status\/2038378477045383178\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sunday<\/a> as part of its larger journey to the Middle East with two other ships and 2,500 members of Camp Pendleton\u2019s 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, according to local reports in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has ordered the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group to join other U.S. ships and troops to the Middle East, possibly to help carry a ground war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It is common for warships to swing by Pearl Harbor when they\u2019re headed to the Indo-Pacific or Middle East and to stop on the way back for liberty leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The next leg of the Boxer\u2019s expedition could be Guam, where ships make a final stop before going deep into the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego-based amphibious assault ship USS Boxer pulled into Pearl Harbor Sunday as part of its larger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-244688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news","12":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}