San Diego Navy Dispatch

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The Navy Dispatch was founded in the early 1960s by William J. Hagerty after his retirement from a career in the U.S. Navy. Hagerty, a WWII Purple Heart Veteran, went into a public information billet after the war. Later, Hagerty served as Public Affairs Officer at Naval Station Long Beach, PAO at Commander 11th Naval District ( now Commander Naval Region Southwest ) and at Naval Training Center, San Diego. His newspaper experience during his Navy career set the stage for his second career -- the Navy Dispatch newspaper group published by Western States Weeklies, Inc Since 1961, the Navy Dispatch has served active duty and retired Navy and Marine Corps personnel with an informative and interesting newspaper. We offer our advertisers a top-quality product that reaches military readers at work and at home. Today the Navy Marine Corps Dispatch continues to evolve into a better vehicle to serve both our readers and our advertisers. The Navy Marine Corps Dispatch is one of only a few papers for the military community owned by a civilian family and in no way a part of the military itself. The San Diego paper is the largest and oldest weekly military paper in the county, with Thursday delivery to all the military bases in San Diego County, to the ships in port and to military housing units & military households in the civilian community via direct mail, doorstep, and bulk delivery. For more information on the military in San Diego -- the largest Naval complex in the free world -- click here.