Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Camp Kearny was a U.S. military base in San Diego, California, on the site of the current Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It operated from 1917 to 1946. The camp was established by the Army in 1917 on 12,721 acres of land on a mesa north of San Diego. The area included the 2,130-acre Miramar Ranch, which had originally been established by newspaperman E. W. Scripps and later sold to the Jessop family. It was Scripps who named the area Miramar, meaning "view of the sea".