IF WERE TO WRITE AN INCREDIBLE ROADMAP TO TRANSFORM OUR DEMOCRACY INTO DICTATORSHIP, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. BIG PART OF THAT IS TO TURN THE MILITARY INTO TRUMP’S MAGA MILITARY FORCE, WILLING, READY AND ABLE TO DEPLOY AGAINST OUR CITIZENS SHOULD TRUMP ISSUE AN ILLEGAL ORDER. WE KNOW FROM HIS HISTORY THAT DONALD TRUMP ASKED MARK ESPER, HIS DEFENSE SECRETARY, WHETHER HE COULD SHOOT PROTESTERS IN THE LEGS OR SOMETHING AFTER THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS BROKE OUT.
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Speaking at campaign event intended to discuss antisemitism, Trump was introduced by Miriam Adelson, wealthy Republican donor and widow of Sheldon Adelson, who pumped millions of dollars of his own money into electing Republican candidates. But civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. She gets it, and she’s healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.
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The memorial’s 47th-anniversary celebration and concert are set for late next month, and they’re in the middle of fundraiser to remodel and reimagine the crumbling memorial.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vandals-spray-paint-military-memorial-030832099.html
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National Guardsmen were killed after their Apache helicopter crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas, the day before. An AH-64D Apache attack helicopter is prepped for flight at Robert Gray Army Air Field, Fort Hood, Texas, on Aug.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/army-identifies-guardsmen-killed-in-texas-apache-crash-1.446467
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Adam Chalkley, right, commander of 3rd Marine Logistics Group, presents the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal to Sgt. Malik Pugh at Camp Kinser, Okinawa,Japan, on Dec.
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Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines. Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets, one of which is seen here, escort pair of Tu-95 Bear bombers in international airspace north of Norway on Feb.
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Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military government and the Arakan Army, an armed ethnic rebel group.
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/myanmar-arakan-army-rakhine-rohingya-b30596
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The installation in Virginia is now officially Fort Walker, named for Dr. He has many years of experience in journalism, digital media and broadcasting and holds degree from the University of Utah.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-08-25/fort-walker-ap-hill-confederate-army-11162161.html
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Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines. Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets, one of which is seen here, escort pair of Tu-95 Bear bombers in international airspace north of Norway on Feb.
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Army colonel with more than 25 years of service and two Iraq deployments, am ashamed of the 50 Republican veterans who signed letter denigrating the military service of Minnesota Gov.
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An airman from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, boards C-130H Hercules after completing pre-flight checks at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Jan. Phillip is reporter and photographer for Stars and Stripes, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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Jones filed his lawsuit on February 26 in which he makes number of accusations against Combs, including sexual misconduct, grooming and participating in sex-trafficking activity. However, Jones’ lawsuit, which also implicates Combs’ son and several business associates, details his experiences working with Combs in Los Angeles and Miami while producing an album in 2022 and 2023. It is weak attempt to fill their pockets before he is indicted, and they decide to haul a**, just like his five previous lawyers did.
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-diddy-combs-fights-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit-1944632
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Over the course of his 30-year career in the Air Force, Charles McGee fought in three wars and became the first Black man to command stateside Air Force wing and base in the integrated Air Force. WASHINGTON — Charles McGee, Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died Sunday.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-01-16/charles-mcgee-tuskegee-airman-dies-at-102-4314355.html
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screen grab from DOD video posted in November 2022, shows B-21 Raider. He has many years of experience in journalism, digital media and broadcasting and holds degree from the University of Utah.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-12-01/b21-raider-bomber-air-force-8265615.html
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Approximately 325 students from Grafenwoehr Elementary learned at displays from groups like the American Red Cross, the base’s environmental division and units like the 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment. Grafenwoehr Elementary School fourth graders, from left to right, Brycon Smith, Alex Threatt and Leo Oliver, ask soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, questions about the Black Hawk helicopter’s suspension during the school’s annual STEM day at Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr, Germany, on Oct.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-23/dodea-students-attend-stem-day-15600208.html
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As of Friday, World War II land mine and almost 8,940 rounds of various other munitions had been discovered during an ongoing magnetic survey of the 116 acres that was once the Awase Meadows Golf Course. The discovery of unexploded ammunition dating from the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945 is common on Okinawa, where the 83-day battle is called the “Typhoon of Steel.
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An 86th Airlift Wing airman was still in hospital Monday, nearly week after being found unresponsive in the aquatic center pool at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The airman was discovered in the water at the Ramstein Aquatic Center on Wednesday evening, base spokesman said in statement.
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Killing the snakes to demonstrate jungle survival technique was scuttled at the exercise earlier this month, PETA announced Monday, citing unnamed Thai military sources. Burke has been reporting from Grafenwoehr, Germany, for Stars and Stripes since 2024.
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shooting at Frederick business park in April where Fort Detrick sailor reportedly shot two fellow service members was targeted, Frederick police said Wednesday. Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, Navy hospital corpsman who shot and wounded two fellow sailors before Fort Detrick security forces shot and killed him at the nearby Army base, had been assigned to medical research center in Maryland for nearly two years.
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