Jan 30, 2024Fort Bliss and El Paso border Mexico in far west Texas, and Luna Villa traveled across the border on April 7 to meet with Valenzuela despite a base policy that prohibits soldiers from traveling …
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Oct 2, 2024A Marine Corps recruiter who self-published a memoir about his sexual pursuit of a high school student eager to enlist will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to abusing his position and …
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AUSTIN, Texas A Fort Bliss judge sentenced a soldier to more than 40 years in prison for murdering a child with his hands, along with a string of other charges including drug use and domestic …
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Apr 24, 2024AUSTIN, Texas A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Texas man of wire fraud and money laundering after he befriended his victims, told them he was a veteran of the Army’s elite Delta Force …
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, center, speaks Friday during a news conference at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce to celebrate Austin as the home of Army Futures Command headquarters.
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Apr 27, 2024The Marine killed Tuesday at Camp Pendleton in what base officials described as a “ground mishap” was a 23-year-old aircraft avionics technician.
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The newly established Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has dispatched a remains recovery team to the Cambodian island of Koh Tang, where three Marines were left behind following the final battle …
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Jun 27, 2024AUSTIN, Texas The Army and companies that make weapons have been dropped as sponsors of the South by Southwest Conference and Festival after more than 100 artists and performers protested …
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Jun 4, 2024A soldier at Fort Bliss pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of murder for the death of a child and was sentenced to 17 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge, officials at the Texas base said.
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A short film about two Marines’ final acts of heroism to stop a truck bomb suicide attack in Iraq became free to view this week on the 13th anniversary of the incident, for which the two men …
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Sep 16, 2024The Government Accountability Office found the number of military construction projects delayed for more than a year jumped from 73 to 158 from 2019 to 2024. The agency also found 25% of all …
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-09-16/military-construction-delays-15199919.html
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The Army is expected to get its first on-base tattoo parlor, as the company that opened the first-ever ink studio in a military exchange expands to three more installations.
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Jun 4, 2024AUSTIN, Texas A Texas prosecutor on Tuesday filed a request for the state’s highest criminal court to overturn Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a former Army sergeant who was convicted of …
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Mar 1, 2024About eight months after Nelson-Royster’s arrest, the Army discharged her, according to Brock Benjamin, her attorney. She also served as a logistics officer at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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AUSTIN, Texas In the fall of 2018, as the Army set up operations for Army Futures Command, it gave one of its private housing partners $8.5 million in profit from Fort Hood base housing to buy …
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Oct 17, 2024AUSTIN, Texas An Army veteran was shot and killed Tuesday by local police in Orange County after leading authorities on a high-speed chase through two towns, crashing in front of a school and …
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In 2002, Stevenson checked himself into a rehabilitation center in Bridgeport, Conn. He was treated for his substance-use disorder and has been sober for nearly 20 years.
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Jul 24, 2024Bowsher, meanwhile, took a successful high school swimming career he was a three-time all-state swimmer and added fencing, equestrian, shooting and running to his repertoire for the modern …
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Aug 13, 2023The Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Jeremiah Denton is named for Sen. Denton, who died in 2014; Kathryn Denton died in 2007 at 81. Brian McElhiney. Brian McElhiney.
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AUSTIN, Texas Lt. Gen. James Rainey was announced Wednesday as the Army’s nominee to take charge of its Futures Command, the same day that legislation was proposed in the Senate to quell a …
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