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A social media post shows Marine veteran Hector Vargas, who was convicted for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., received on Friday, April 21, 2023, a four-month …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-04-25/marine-veteran-nj-selfie-video-j6-riot-prison-9918646.html

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In New York alone, 2,753 people died when terrorists linked to al-Qaida flew two hijacked airliners into the towers. Among the dead were 60 New York police officers and 343 firefighters and …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-09-11/yokota-air-base-japan-9/11-stair-climb-11336088.html

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The New York Times reported that the army had told employees to be prepared to open the floodgates if ordered, a move which would flood roads that could be used by the rebels to advance on the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/reports-isil-attacking-balad-air-base-could-seize-military-gear-1.290563

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An upstate New York native who served three years in the U.S. Army before graduating from the University of Arizona, she previously worked at The Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times. Over …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/more-charges-dropped-against-former-173rd-commander-1.180041

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Oct 2, 2024Marine Corps aircraft, including MV-22B Ospreys and CH-53E Super Stallions, prepare to depart Ie Shima, Okinawa, Oct. 31, 2015. (William Hester/U.S. Marine Corps)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-10-01/okinawa-ie-shima-runway-parachute-15376081.html

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FORT DRUM (Tribune News Service) — Fort Drum could be selected for a new military installation that could add another 3,000 soldiers and dozens more civilian jobs.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-07-15/fort-drum-new-installation-soldiers-6660672.html

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U.S. Marine Corps recruits eat Meals, Ready to Eat at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga., Sept 4, 2019. A study published in October 2019 found that eating only MREs for 21 days has hardly …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/don-t-blame-mres-for-your-gastrointestinal-discomfort-army-scientists-say-1.604225

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Another Marine with the F-35Bs, Gunnery Sgt. Terrence Hubbard, 35, of New Albany, Ind., said he’s seen wallabies, snakes, spiders, colorful birds and bats during the mission.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-09-02/marine-corps-f35-tindal-australia-7186562.html

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Apr 1, 2023Capt. Theodore “Tadziu” Sienicki arrived at Westover one day before Brown in a plane that also carried two navigators from New York who had been held in captivity. Sienicki was 24 when he was …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-04-01/vietnam-war-pow-air-force-base-massachusetts-9673091.html

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Feb 24, 2023A former soldier who was arrested Thursday in Florida is charged with the murder of a 19-year-old private on an Army base in Germany more than 20 years ago, law enforcement officials said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-02-24/army-cold-case-murder-germany-9238525.html

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Apr 16, 2024The Army Reserve’s 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command has deployed to the Middle East. The command, based in Marysville, Wash., recently deployed from Fort Cavazos, Texas, as part of a pre …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-04-16/364th-sustainment-command-middle-east-13568845.html

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Apr 1, 2024Monk’s claim is on behalf of all Black applicants for veterans benefits administered by the VA or its predecessor since Jan. 1, 1945. Underhill’s ruling issued Friday in the U.S. District …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-04-01/veterans-lawsuit-racial-discrimination-disability-claims-13468332.html

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Mills, 61, was born an Oglala Sioux on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, traditionally one of the most impoverished in America. Though poor, Mills saved up a cache of life lessons.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/1999-07-02/billy-mills:-pride-of-a-marine,-heart-of-a-warrior-1957802.html

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He’s reported from East Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and across the U.S. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-01-23/alaska-army-dead-soldier-wainwright-12773271.html

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Air Force F-22 stealth fighters arrived in Singapore on Wednesday for several days of combat and air-to-air refueling exercises over the South China Sea, according to U.S. and Singaporean officials.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-08-23/raptors-singapore-south-china-sea-14952304.html

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The Wetzel military housing community in Baumholder, Germany. A new Rand Corp. report found that male soldiers based at Baumholder were more at risk of being sexually assaulted than any at other …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-06-21/Study-says-male-soldiers-at-Baumholder-face-highest-risk-among-US-Army-bases-of-sexual-assault-1757035.html

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The first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine stern has arrived at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Rhode Island. Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division in …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-01-10/columbia-class-submarine-stern-delivered-12624934.html

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He’s reported from East Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and across the U.S. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-10/navy-reservist-dead-middle-east-13820220.html

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Recruits with Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct the Obstacle Course on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., July 23, 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-23/marine-recruits-obstacle-course-14571580.html

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Derr and Swaney met in 2004 at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. They bonded while working as F-16 mechanics. Swaney was “one of those guys always willing to help regardless of the job …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2021-12-08/airman-runs-to-honor-friend-lost-to-suicide-3895571.html

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