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July 15, 2001
There's something incongruous about the proprietors of a site devoted to weapons of mass destruction welcoming bird lovers to their property. It's to the credit of the U.S. Navy on one side and civilian bird monitors on the other that an accommodation has been found at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. The facility has an island where least terns nest.
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February 16, 2001 | LOUIS SAHAGUN and ERIC MALNIC, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Two light planes, each carrying two people from a flying club in Long Beach, collided over the San Pedro Channel and plunged into the ocean just outside the Long Beach Breakwater on Thursday. There were no signs of survivors. One of those aboard the planes was identified by his family as Mike Chisholm, 56, owner of a flight school in Chino. The others were not identified.
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August 26, 1999 | Louise Roug, (714) 966-5977
Residents and the City Council were introduced to the new commanding officer of the Naval Weapons Station at Monday's council meeting. The new commanding officer, Capt. Paul Bruno, has been with the Navy for 24 years, and will relieve Capt. Thomas Bernitt, who is retiring after 26 years of service. The 55-year-old naval base south of Seal Beach Boulevard services more than 100 ships annually.
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July 31, 1999 | MICHAEL LUO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Biologist Jeff Johnson at first dismissed the rumors swirling among the personnel at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. But the reports kept coming in: a clutch of humongous eggs, resting on a grassy berm on the south side of the base. When he decided to go out and investigate, Johnson found himself staring at seven dark green eggs, each about 6 inches long--larger than any egg he had ever seen--baking in the sun. He hurried back to his office and placed a call to a bird expert. The verdict?
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March 24, 1999 | HARRISON SHEPPARD and JANET WILSON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The commander of the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and three other West Coast arms depots said he will aggressively work to keep weapons handling under the control of government employees, even as a proposal to seek private bids for the sensitive work moves forward. Capt. Thomas R.
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March 14, 1999 | GREG HERNANDEZ, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Some Seal Beach city leaders said Saturday they wouldn't object to private companies handling weapons at Navy bases--a move under consideration for bases nationwide--if the cost-cutting measure helps keep the local Naval Weapons Station open. The Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station is the biggest munitions depot on the West Coast.