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May 15, 2024He first enlisted in the Army in 1980 and retired in 2019 as a one-star general in the Pennsylvania National Guard. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a committee member who sponsored the bill …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-05-15/military-spouses-employment-house-readiness-13869151.html

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Feb 17, 2023CAMP SCHWAB, Okinawa — The Marine Corps took on fellow Marines and Army Special Forces during a recent jungle warfare exercise to hone a key piece of the Marine commandant’s island-fighting …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-02-17/marines-okinawa-jungle-warfare-china-9168220.html

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Jun 26, 2024Stryker vehicles from the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team await shipment at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., June 5, 2024. The brigade is turning in 322 old Strykers and will receive 316 upgraded …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-06-26/56th-stryker-combat-team-upgraded-armored-vehicles-pennsylvania-army-national-guard-14305918.html

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Jun 13, 2023The first occurred in Indiantown Gap in Pennsylvania and killed 20-year-old Spc. Mackenzie Shay last October . Haven’s noncombat death was the second for an American service member in Kuwait in …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-13/army-soldier-killed-crash-kuwait-10426737.html

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Apr 24, 2024Aungst grew up speaking Pennsylvania Dutch on a farm in Pine Grove, Pa., he recalled. Both of his parents, Eldoria and Roy, worked to support the war effort in World War II. Aungst left a job at a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-04-24/vietnam-battle-war-veterans-army-13643630.html

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Aug 23, 2024FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The family of a 19-year-old wife of a Hawaii-based soldier who went missing three weeks ago said Thursday that Army investigators told them they do not believe she is alive.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-08-23/missing-pregnant-army-spouse-hawaii-14957799.html

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Nov 9, 2022Spc. Mackenzie L. Shay, 20, was killed in a crash Oct. 22, 2022. The accident occurred at Fort Indiantown Gap in southeastern Pennsylvania involving a pair of cargo vehicles during a training …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-09/national-guard-crash-death-shay-7993115.html

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Airmen seek counseling when they’ve been through experiences or see something that violates a core value, according to Rigonan’s boss, 374th Airlift Wing Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Dale Marlowe, 51 …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/committed-to-connecting-air-force-chaplain-stands-by-flight-line-to-help-airmen-in-western-tokyo-1.601499

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Donahoe was commissioned an armor officer in 1989 after graduating from Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is a veteran of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Corey Dickstein.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-09-23/army-general-social-media-investigation-7441241.html

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The training was good preparation for an actual urban battlefield, said Cpl. Eric Starns, 26, from State College, Pa. Starns recently returned from five months deployment in Afghanistan.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/simulation-lets-marines-train-to-take-the-fight-downtown-1.52111

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Pennsylvania Air National Guard Tech Sgt. Anthony Williams poses with John Gretton ”Jocko” Willink, a retired Navy SEAL officer at Biddle Air National Guard Base, Pa., April 19, 2021.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/retired-seal-jocko-willink-surprises-guard-members-tells-them-to-relish-adversity-1.671563

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(Tribune News Service) — Pinned down by enemy fire in the steep-flanked Ganjgal valley of eastern Afghanistan, then-Capt. Will Swenson thought his Army career, launched after 9/11, might soon …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-09-08/will-swenson-medal-of-honor-reflects-afghanistan-2815892.html

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Visit Bucks County Courier Times, Levittown, Pa. at www.buckscountycouriertimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. PFAS foam on the shoreline of Van Etten Lake near Wurtsmith Air …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-09-16/willow-grove-naval-air-base-redevelopment-pfas-2914878.html

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Sep 26, 2024There may be little else the U.S. military can do to restrict troops in Japan, said Marc Gallicchio, the Mary M. Birle Chair in American history at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-26/okinawa-military-sexual-assault-cases-15306851.html

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The troops begin to rotate stateside at the end of the month, said Lt. Col. Loris Lepri, 42, of Glenburn, Pa. All of the Pennsylvania troops should be with their families by March 1, said Lepri …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/usareur-bids-farewell-to-pennsylvania-guard-1.958

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Army Brig. Gen. Amy Johnston, formerly Hannah, was suspended as the service chief of public affairs pending an inspector general investigation for counterproductive and toxic leadership.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-09-23/general-suspended-johnston-toxic-leadership-guillen-fort-hood-2997561.html

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Feb 7, 2023SCRANTON (Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Army will spend $243 million over the next several years to upgrade the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, creating more than two dozen new jobs …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-02-07/army-secretary-pa-munitions-plant-upgrade-9067182.html

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Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif., shown here in an undated photo shared to social media, was stationed at Camp Pendleton and often enjoyed visiting family for a home-cooked meal on …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-09-05/marine-corps-lance-cpl-kareem-nikoui-ceremony-california-kabul-attack-2785615.html

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Two other Marines from the Inland Empire, Lance Cpl. Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui, of Norco, and Cpl. Hunter Lopez, of Indio, were also killed in the suicide bombing. Eight more Marines, an Army …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-09-22/dylan-merola-marine-corps-kabul-bombing-memorial-2977958.html

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Army Col. Jeanette Martin, left, pins the Soldier’s Medal on Staff Sgt. Aschlynd Spidell-Flores on Oct. 20, 2023, at Fort Knox, Ky. Spidell-Flores was honored for risking her life to pull a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-10-26/soldiers-award-spidell-flores-11836728.html

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