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The Navy Dispatch was founded in the early 1960s by William J. Hagerty and partners 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 Navy Region Southwest) and at Naval Training Center, San Diego. His newspaper experience during his Navy career (a Mariana Island publication, The Hoist at NTC, Naval Station Long Beach publication) set the stage for his second career -- the Navy Dispatch newspaper group published by Western States Weeklies, Inc. Upon his passing in 1992, his daughter, Sarah Hagerty, took over as publisher... 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...

Also known as: Navy Carlos Del Toro, Navy Dispatch

Primary location: Carlsbad United States