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    The Naval Reserve Center building in Santa Barbara, California is the location of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum along with other uses. In 1897, a...
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  • of construction. The American Legion and the Naval Reserves from the Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara helped provide order amidst the chaos and manned...
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    Santa Barbara history. During World War II, Santa Barbara was home to Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, and Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara at...
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    Santa Margarita Ranch Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara Naval Medical Center San Diego Naval Medical Research Unit One Naval Air Station North Island...
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  • Sedgwick Reserve is a 5,896-acre (2,386 ha) nature reserve in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is located in the San Rafael Mountains...
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    Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, is a former military installation in Santa Barbara, California, United...
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    The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California....
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    Ellwood Oil Field (category Oil fields in Santa Barbara County, California)
    economic development of the Santa Barbara area. A Japanese submarine shelled the area during World War II. It was the first direct naval bombardment of the continental...
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    in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. They define the Santa Barbara Channel between the islands and the California mainland. The four Northern...
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    Naval Base San Diego is a United States Navy base in San Diego, California. It is the world's second largest surface ship naval base. Naval Base San Diego...
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    Training Centers in Miami, Florida, Santa Barbara, California and other sites. The Navy operated a number of Facilities on Terminal Island: Naval Air Base...
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    Channel Islands National Park (category Parks in Santa Barbara County, California)
    designations. Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands were made a national monument in 1938. All eight islands became a biosphere reserve under UNESCO in 1976....
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    to Santa Barbara, in 1935 and began working full-time as an artist. At the start of the Second World War he commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve...
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    neighbouring Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island and Santa Barbara Island are part of the Channel Islands National Park. Anacapa State Marine Reserve is also...
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    European to document the Santa Lucias was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition. Cabrillo...
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  • The City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmarks consist of buildings and sites designated by the City of Santa Barbara, California, as historic landmarks...
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    Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (category Protected areas of Santa Barbara County, California)
    Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is a sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in Southern California 350 miles south of San Francisco...
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    Pierpont M. Hamilton (category Burials at Santa Barbara Cemetery)
    the VA Wadsworth Medical Center in Los Angeles and died at age 83. Hamilton was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. SOURCE: Biographical...
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  • Garey and the Navy instituted a Naval Reserve unit in September 1924, creating the first-ever collegiate Department of Naval Science in the United States...
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    United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a...
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    California, including Counties of Santa Barbara, Kern, and San Bernardino, and all counties south thereof. Eleventh Naval District was one of six original...
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    school, Naval Construction Battalion Training Center and a medical field service school at the naval hospital at Santa Margarita Ranch, now Naval Hospital...
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    Los Padres National Forest (category Protected areas of Santa Barbara County, California)
    Forest Reserve, (est. March 2, 1898) combined with Santa Ynez on December 22, 1903, to create Santa Barbara Forest Reserve Santa Ynez Forest Reserve, (est...
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    Reserve Sedgwick Reserve Yosemite Field Station Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve Steele Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains...
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    : 21–24  Ballard enrolled at University of California, Santa Barbara, and joined the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.: 27–30  Beginning in 1962, Ballard...
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    discovery of the Orcutt and Lompoc fields, northern Santa Barbara County became a regional center of production; towns such as Orcutt owe their existence...
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  • Mackubin Thomas Owens (category University of California, Santa Barbara alumni)
    Oklahoma, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book, US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the...
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  • many do have reserve bases and centers. In addition, the Marine Corps Security Force Regiment maintains Marines permanently at numerous naval installations...
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    Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (category Protected areas of Santa Cruz County, California)
    Monterey Bay. However, public hearings, with the memory of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, brought protests demanding a larger size. The first Draft...
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    and Bright: The Life of Henry Miller, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1978. ISBN 0-88496-082-X Kraft, Barbara. A Conversation with Henry Miller, Michigan:...
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