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The Air Force on Thursday identified an airman from Texas as the man whose body was discovered after a fire consumed a recreational vehicle last month in Wasilla, Alaska. Tech. Sgt. Steven Wesley …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-01-06/alaska-airman-dies-rv-fire-alaska-us-air-force-4206896.html

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May 3, 2023Army Sgt. Daniel Perry was convicted of murder April 7, 2023, for fatally shooting an armed Air Force veteran who was taking part in a protest in Austin, Texas, in 2020.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-05-03/army-soldier-murder-air-force-veteran-10004003.html

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Jul 2, 2024Rose L. Thayer is based in Austin, Texas, and she has been covering the western region of the continental U.S. for Stars and Stripes since 2018. Before that she was a reporter for Killeen Daily …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2024-07-02/coast-guard-sexual-assault-scandal-coverup-senate-14367624.html

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Sgt. Alex Rios Rodriguez, 52, died Thursday, July 14, 2022, while deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with the Texas National Guard. He enlisted in the National Guard in 1998 as a truck driver.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-07-18/texas-national-guard-soldier-death-6692120.html

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He crossed McAllen, Texas, on Independence Day that year and took a 28-hour bus ride to Florida. In Jacksonville, Fla., Claudia’s father gave him a job at his trucking company, where he drove 18 …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-06-19/Former-cabaret-dancer-now-leads-Army-recruiting-station-1736442.html

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Sep 26, 2023The 25-year-old McAllen, Texas native leaves behind a one-month-old child. Acosta was known for his smile and charisma and compassion, effort and passion and perseverance and sense of humor.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-09-25/marine-deaths-parris-island-11491849.html

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South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers provide airborne support to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in proximity of the southwest border, McAllen, Texas, in 2018. (Roberto Di Giovine …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-07-04/ohio-national-guard-deploy-southern-border-2050527.html

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Nashyra S. Whitaker, 23, died at the scene of the single-vehicle accident that occurred at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in McAllen, Texas, said Lt. Joel Morales, spokesman for the McAllen Police Department.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-09-08/national-guard-death-drunken-driving-georgia-louisiana-manslaughter-2808110.html

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MCALLEN, Texas — The authority given Texas National Guard troops to detain people at the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn several challenges from advocacy groups and some lawmakers about whether it …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-02-08/texas-mexico-border-national-guard-troops-migrants-4830310.html

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MCALLEN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced nearly a year ago that he had declared a disaster at the Texas border with Mexico caused by illegal immigration, drug smuggling and human trafficking.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-02-04/texas-troops-mexico-border-national-guard-4640104.html

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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott and four top state lawmakers approved $339 million to keep thousands of Texas National Guard troops deployed to the state’s border with Mexico.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-10-27/national-guard-texas-border-troops-7834347.html

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Oct 18, 2023An E-2D Hawkeye launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Oct. 12, 2023. (Jennifer Newsome/U.S. Navy)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-10-18/us-navy-israel-hamas-middle-east-11746432.html

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May 11, 2023Her children described Julia Moore as a go-getter who would support her children through anything — including the family’s 28 moves during Hal Moore’s Army career.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-05-11/fort-moore-benning-georgia-army-10087193.html

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Apr 6, 2023An M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Abrams tanks are on display during the opening ceremony for the Army’s new weapons depot in Powidz, Poland, on April 5, 2023.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-04-06/army-poland-nato-powidz-9719318.html

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“As America’s forward deployed corps, we were built for this mission,” Lt. Gen. John S. Kolasheski, V Corps commander, said in the statement.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-03-04/v-corps-us-army-hq-europe-5222264.html

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May 10, 2024A state-run Chinese military news website labeled that trip as provocative but official Chinese sources had not commented on the Halsey’s freedom-of-navigation demonstration as of Friday afternoon.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-10/navy-fonop-south-china-sea-13813602.html

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Aug 14, 2023The USS America diverted from a planned port call to lend assistance in Papua New Guinea, ship’s commander Capt. Manuel Pardo wrote in a letter to the crew and their families Aug. 7.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-08-14/us-marines,-navy-deliver-aid-to-papua-new-guinea-after-volcanic-eruptions-11043086.html

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KFOR currently includes about 3,600 peacekeepers from 27 nations. The United States has the largest contingent, with 660 troops, most of them based at this sprawling facility in central Kosovo.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-08-19/Kosovo-Bondsteel-National-Guard-Vermont-2580248.html

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Dec 1, 2022The magazine Advertising Age, which ranked “Be All You Can Be” as No. 18 in the top 100 campaigns of the 20th century, described the ads as hitting a bull’s-eye for appealing to high school …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-12-01/army-recruiting-slogan-advertising-campaign%C2%A0-8267208.html

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Aug 16, 2023Also in the backfield is the 2022 leading rusher in fullback Daba Fofana, who totaled 819 yards and six touchdowns on 186 carries as a sophomore.

https://www.stripes.com/sports/2023-08-16/refined-navy-offense-emerging-newberry-10996804.html

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