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The U.S. Navy will reevaluate the impacts of its training exercises on marine life in the wake of the deaths of two fin whales apparently fatally struck by a military vessel off the coast of San Diego earlier this year, the Center for Biological Diversity said Thursday.
The deaths of the two whales likely a mother and her calf, according to the Center for Biological Diversity occurred during joint military exercises on May 8 between the U.S. and Australian navies. The bodies of the whales were found lodged against the hull of the HMAS Sydney when it pulled into Naval Base San Diego.
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The San Diego-based Navy command in charge of the service’s bases across California and Nevada is changing hands, as one Navy admiral heads into retirement and another takes the reins in a role sometimes described as the “Navy Mayor” of San Diego.
Rear Adm. Stephen Barnett will assume command of Navy Region Southwest at a ceremony Friday at Naval Air Station North Island, the Navy said in a statement. He most recently served as the commander of Navy Region Northwest in Kitsap, Wash. and was the commanding officer of Naval Base Coronado from 2015 to 2016.
Barnett is the third Black officer to serve as San Diego’s unofficial “Navy Mayor” and the first to do so as commander of Navy Region Southwest, which was established in 1999. Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker held the title as the commander of Naval Base San Diego in the late 1980s. Rear Adm. Samuel Gravely, Jr. the first Black man in the Navy to achieve the rank of flag officer held the title from 1975 to 19