"I don't need the money, " he said before a recent promotional appearance at Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Base down the coast from Los Angeles.

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Westview used that intelligence to home in on the northern San Diego neighborhoods of Escondido and Oceanside, where Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps base, provides jobs and limits urban sprawl.

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In September, a twin-engine, two-seat AH-1W Cobra helicopter went down during training in a remote area of Camp Pendleton, killing two Marine pilots and igniting a brush fire that burned about 120 acres at the base north of San Diego.

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