Oct 17, 2024Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael R. Weimer announced that a new Master Combat Badge is being rolled out for combat veterans who also have earned skills-related honors. Weimer also announced that the …
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Feb 23, 2024″I remember people were like, ‘What are you doing with 50 coveralls?'” Soriano said. “I was, like, ‘We’ll donate them back; we need this, we’re working on a production.’
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May 17, 2024An Oklahoma Army National Guard soldier pulls illegally grown marijuana plants out of their pots in Kay County, Okla., in September 2022. (Haden Tolbert/Oklahoma National Guard)
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The Marine Corps on Friday identified the five air crewmen who perished Wednesday when their MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft fell into the Southern California desert east of El Centro.
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The U.S. soldier who died Thursday in Afghanistan from wounds in a bomb blast was a compassionate leader whose troops say he always encouraged people who are struggling to ask for help.
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Mar 25, 2024Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed Senate Bill 140, which would have raised the base student allocation by 11.5%, or $680 per student, but would have left the school district with a $21 million deficit.
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Sep 9, 2024U.S. Special Operations Command had yet to complete an analysis justifying its plans to purchase dozens of the OA-1K armed overwatch aircraft, a plane to conduct intelligence, surveillance and …
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Dec 16, 2022The Oklahoma native died last Saturday at home surrounded by his family at the age of 37, Naval Athletics announced. Tidwell, who was diagnosed with ALS in August 2019, passed shortly after the …
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Feb 27, 2024More than 800 Oklahoma National Guard soldiers received a warm welcome home from family and friends during the weekend upon return from a nine-month deployment to the Horn of Africa.
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May 30, 2024An Oklahoma school district is accused of illegally refusing to rehire a teacher after he returned from military deployment. Now the Department of Justice is suing.
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May 10, 2024A former National Guard soldier pleaded guilty Thursday, May 9, 2024, to sexual abuse of another man at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, according to the Justice Department.
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Mar 19, 2024Col. Col. Bruce “Munch” Avriett, commander of the 552nd Air Control Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., died Monday. He took command of the unit July 2022.
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The Oklahoma Industries Authority owns 220 acres east of Douglas Boulevard to provide for additional Department of Defense missions and to attract additional private sector jobs.
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Oct 5, 2024TULSA, Okla. Bryson Daily threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores, Kanye Udoh ran for 137 yards and two TDs on just six carries Saturday and Army beat Tulsa 49-7 for its ninth …
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Nov 9, 2023After his accident, James said he initially received care at the burn center at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., where he was in a coma for four weeks. He was then transferred to Parkland …
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Instead, “he chose to leave his family to come and serve,” said Janie Brady, Schwab’s niece. So, on May 12, 1944, Schwab left his wife and 2-year-old son in Oklahoma after joining the Marine …
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Oklahoma Air National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Marshal Roberts, 28, was killed March 11, 2020, during a rocket attack in Iraq. Roberts served with the 219th Engineering Installation Squadron, 138th …
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Feb 1, 2023The world’s skies will be a little less sexy starting next year. The Air Force on Sept. 1, 2024, will retire its fleet of KC-10A Extenders, aerial refuelers that can also transport troops or …
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DAYTON, Ohio (Tribune News Service) After the World Trade Center towers fell and a hijacked plane tore through the Pentagon complex, one of the first calls for help on Sept. 11, 2001, was to …
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