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Chris Widell pins the Distinguished Service Cross on retired Sgt. Daniel Cowart during a ceremony March 20 at Fort Hood, Texas. Widell is a former Army officer and friend who Cowart said helped …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/i-think-about-those-events-every-day-retired-army-sergeant-receives-upgraded-distinguished-service-cross-1.573522

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Dawit Befakadu Girma, 21, was driving the white Ford F150 and Daniel Luis Molina, 27, was in the passenger seat when the truck rolled over near Laredo at about 1:30 a.m. near Texas State Highway …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-01-31/texas-national-guard-killed-car-crash-12852732.html

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A Texas National Guard observation post is seen along a road in Mission, Texas, in January 2022. The troops are deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico as part of a more than 2-year-old mission to …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-07-06/texas-border-national-guard-migrant-shooting-10658784.html

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AUSTIN, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier has been charged with murdering his wife, also a soldier, after an incident more than a week ago at the Texas base led to her death, Army officials announced …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/fort-bliss-soldier-charged-with-murdering-his-wife-also-a-soldier-1.577081

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Spc. Shelby Tyler Jones, 20, was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, March 1, 2020, outside of a convenience store on Fort Hood Street.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/fort-hood-soldier-killed-at-a-texas-strip-club-1.621151

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Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, said he had heard concerns from veterans service organizations that the forms are outdated for physical health conditions related to military sexual trauma.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-04-12/veterans-affairs-legislation-military-sexual-trauma-5667928.html

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The U.S. Air Force Installation Contracting Agency awarded Fluor, a global construction company based in Irving, Texas, a five-year, $409 million contract, the company said in an April 10 news …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-04-19/tinian-airfield-upgrades-atomic-bombings-13596068.html

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A Fort Riley soldier, who has been in the Army for slightly more than a year, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter for a car crash that killed a Kansas police officer, according …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-09-16/fort-riley-soldier-car-crash-manslaughter-15197272.html

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a U.S. Marine to a suspended, two-year prison term for assaulting two Japanese people, one a 76-year-old woman, in …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-02-16/marine-iwakuni-punch-sentence-13021858.html

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The bulk of troops announced in March came from Fort Stewart, Ga., and units from Fort Bliss, Texas, and then-Fort Bragg, N.C., joined rotations to strengthen NATO to deter Russian aggression. The …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-08-21/army-brigades-deployments-middle-east-europe-11116001.html

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Darin Hoover, left, and Kelly Barnett, parents of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover and Abbey Gate Gold Star family members, embrace Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who presented them with a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-08-29/house-gold-star-military-kabul-afghanistan-11207988.html

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Sep 9, 2024Maj. Bryant Burns, a KC-46 pilot with the 157th Operations Group, prepares for a flyover for the Red Sox opening day ceremony at Fenway Park, Boston, Mass., April 9, 2024, from Pease Air National …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-09-08/air-national-guard-kc-46-15113469.html

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An Illinois native who’s reported for news outlets in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Oregon and California, he’s an alumnus of the Defense Language Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-07-16/marine-corps-general-julian-alford-discharge-thae-ohu-2167199.html

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The Iraqi air force performs an F-16 ”elephant walk” on Balad Air Base, Iraq, in December 2020. An uptick in attacks earlier this year forced U.S. contractors to leave the base where they had …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/iraq-s-f-16-program-stalls-after-us-contractors-evacuate-balad-air-base-report-says-1.672349

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The Army won’t redesign its physical training uniforms in 2025 but is looking at allowing soldiers to purchase different shirts and shorts that use the current black-and-gold look, the service said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-24/army-physical-training-uniform-options-15610364.html

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Rose 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.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-21/army-dead-soldier-fort-campbell-homicide-13927031.html

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Lehew, who is from Plano near Dallas, pleaded guilty in August in federal court to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. In the Texas case, Lehew took a plea agreement in 2020 for …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-06-22/fort-bliss-soldier-sexual-abuse-child-10521571.html

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A Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program pilot in the back seat of a T-6A Texan II at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, in January 2019. (John Ingle/U.S. Air Force)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-05-14/pilot-instructor-dead-texas-sheppard%C2%A0-13854090.html

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Allison and Spc. Grant Boshaw of the 1st Cavalry Division on June 16, 2023, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. They will be the first to receive a new home in Heritage Heights at Fort Cavazos, Texas.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-16/fort-cavazos-housing-enlisted-soldiers-10461463.html

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Airmen duck walk with their weapons during the Air Force pararescuemen indoctrination “Hell Week” course at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Sept. 6, 2011.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-01-25/military-entrance-stations-to-drop-group-exams-duck-walk-is-here-to-stay-4409384.html

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