A U.S. Air Force airman assigned to the 823rd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer reunites with his family at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Sunday, April 14, 2024.
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Joshua Watson was killed during a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Dec. 6, 2019. The Naval Academy graduate from Enterprise, Alabama, had just reported to Pensacola two weeks prior to …
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He knows about leadership. He joined the U.S. Naval Academy after high school in the late 1990s and received his wings in 2002. In the years that followed, he was an instructor pilot and flew …
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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – A town hall meeting on Thursday at the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet was inundated by a barrage of questions about the lack of health care options for civilians at U.S …
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Originally from Knoxville, Tenn., he holds a journalism degree from the University of North Florida. He previously covered crime and the military in Key West, Fla., and business in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Aug 8, 2024The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group pulled away from Guam and Saipan after a four-day respite before heading to the Middle East.
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Mar 5, 2024RAYONG, Thailand Seated in a cantina at a Thai navy base on Friday, a U.S. Army captain stood out for the cap insignia rarely seen on a military uniform the Buddhist wheel of dharma.
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Dec 25, 2022Levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in treated industrial wastewater at Misawa Air Base had significantly fallen six months after an inadvertent leak of residual firefighting foam at an …
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Ruthanne Bloyd, a Department of Defense Dependents School teacher and friend of Cmdr. Charles “Keith” Springle, speaks during a memorial service at U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.
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Jul 17, 2024The U.S. 7th Fleet’s flagship recently wrapped up a five-day port call on Vietnam that included a visit to the site of an Army helicopter lost during the Vietnam War.
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May 2, 2024An 8:09 p.m. mass text alert from the wing said a 500-foot cordon had been established around Building 714 home to USFJ and 5th Air Force and advised people to stay clear of the area.
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Alkonis was driving on May 29, 2021, in Shizuoka prefecture, about two hours from Yokosuka, when his car plowed into pedestrians and parked cars outside a soba restaurant in Fujinomiya.
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Nov 2, 2023YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan Neither war nor a global pandemic slowed construction of a $403 million combined heat and power plant that will be unveiled Friday at this airlift hub in western Tokyo.
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Jun 18, 2024A forensic psychiatrist testified in Yokosuka, Japan, on June 17, 2024, that a U.S. sailor was suffering from acute alcohol intoxication and delirium when he injured five people two years ago.
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Just a few miles from the base of Mount Fuji, the 309-acre area includes live-fire ranges, maneuver areas and a runway used for training by the U.S. military from throughout the Indo-Pacific region.
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Nov 29, 2022Lt. Cmdr. Amber Cowan, of Colorado Springs, Colo., stepped into her new role Nov. 11 as second-in-command of the Gold Crew aboard the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Kentucky, according …
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Jan 12, 2024The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and several Navy destroyers played a sizable role Thursday in U.S.-led strikes on sites in Yemen that Houthi militants have used repeatedly to launch …
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A Royal Australian Air Force plane passes a worksite on RAAF Tindal, Australia, Sept. 1, 2022. The space is being expanded to accommodate aircraft as large as U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers.
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Jul 19, 2023A native of Mount Auburn, Ind., Hamner began his military service in 1983 with the Utah Army National Guard’s 19th Special Forces Group after a year in ROTC at Brigham Young University.
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May 31, 2024A Colombian national, Jeffersson Arango Castellanos, was sentenced this week to nearly 49 years in prison for drugging, kidnapping and assaulting two U.S. soldiers in Bogota in 2020.
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