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Sep 5, 2023ATLANTA — The Marine Corps has removed a leader at its Parris Island Recruit Depot after the officer’s arrest on battery and child cruelty charges in Florida over the Labor Day holiday weekend …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-09-05/marine-officer-removed-duty-arrest-11274295.html

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Nov 9, 2022A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for accidently driving a forklift over an Air Force doctor at a military base in the United Arab Emirates two years ago.. Ari …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2022-11-09/air-force-forklift-death-guilty-7986973.html

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Loadmasters from the 164th Airlift Squadron prepare to begin pre-flight inspections April 11, 2019, at Pope Army Airfield, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-10-15/pope-army-airfield-fort-bragg-reopens-after-repairs-3256653.html

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Jun 21, 2024A $200 million upgrade is in store at an air station used by American troops in Norway, where a separate mountainside military hideout also is back in action 40 years after being shut down.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-06-21/eucom-norway-air-force-project-14251868.html

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Feb 13, 2024Garbage dumpsters across Fort Liberty have been overflowing for weeks, forcing some soldiers to find other means of disposing of their trash, soldiers and officials at the North Carolina Army post …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-02-13/fort-liberty-army-soldiers-trash-12994070.html

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https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-10-21/f16-accident-damage-report-15579003.html

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May 21, 2024Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Robert Ferris Jr. was buried in North Carolina on May 20, 2024, after his remains were recovered and identified more than 80 years after his bomber was shot down over …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-20/missing-b17-bomber-remains-buried-13922620.html

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Aug 13, 2024Vinson, a native of Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned to the Army Central Command since 2018. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1987 as a fighting vehicle infantryman. He was commissioned as a …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-08-13/shaw-air-force-base-soldier-death-exercise-14855371.html

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Sep 19, 2024Army leaders on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, repeatedly declined to tell House lawmakers whether anyone at Fort Liberty, N.C., was punished for a training presentation that labeled anti-abortion and …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-09-19/army-training-fort-liberty-terrorists-15235889.html

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Jul 5, 2024The service divested in the North Carolina-based squadron, as well as Camp Pendleton’s Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469, as part of Force Design 2030, an effort to modernize the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-05/marine-corps-revives-attack-helicopter-unit-14395112.html

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Jun 26, 2024South Carolina Army National Guardsmen train with new NextGen Squad Weapons at Fort Stewart, Georgia, on June 20, 2024. S.C. Guardsmen are the third to receive the new weapons, following the North …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-06-26/south-carolina-national-guard-nextgen-squad-weapons-training-14305037.html

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(Tribune News Service) — Two U.S. Marines damaged a helicopter just after dining and dashing at a Waffle House in North Carolina, news outlets reported.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-08-24/marines-dine-dash-waffle-house-vandalize-helicopter-7090574.html

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On May 18, Calvin Alfonza Jordan, of Fayetteville, N.C., was sentenced to 42 months in prison for receiving bribes for years while he worked at Fort Bragg, one of the biggest military bases in the …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-05-19/army-veteran-fort-bragg-sentenced-prison-bribery-scheme-6057698.html

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Sep 26, 2023Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrives for a pretrial hearing Jan. 12, 2016, at Fort Bragg, now Fort Liberty, N.C. Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to reinstate the 2017 court-martial conviction of …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-09-26/bergdahl-army-court-martial-taliban-afghanistan-11502671.html

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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — A 35-year-old soldier stationed in North Carolina will be deported after she pleaded guilty to visa fraud involving a sham marriage to a U.S. citizen …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-12-08/fort-bragg-army-soldier-deported-fake-marriage-green-card-3901172.html

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Aug 30, 2024The Marines spent 18 months and some $28 million completing the renovation of the airfield on Camp Lejeune’s Greater Sandy Run Training Area, service officials at the sprawling North Carolina …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-08-30/camp-lejeune-wwii-airfield-training-marines-15025082.html

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Jan 20, 2023A 24-year-old Army cook assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg was found dead from a gunshot wound Wednesday in a town about 20 miles from the North Carolina base, according to …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-01-20/fort-bragg-soldier-killed-8832973.html

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Feb 9, 2023Richardson was taken to jail in Harris County, Texas, and is waiting to be extradited, according to police in North Carolina. Officers ask anyone with information about the case to call them at …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-02-09/army-veteran-charged-2010-murder-9088152.html

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According to the complaint filed Feb. 24 in the Western District of North Carolina, Foust enlisted in the National Guard in 2000 and served various tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-03-01/police-tried-declaring-sergeant-unfit-duty-after-military-leave-lawsuit-5191110.html

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May 12, 2024The Navy Blue Angels delivered their particular brand of aerial artistry to highlight the weekend at the 2024 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show in North Carolina.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-12/blue-angels-cherry-point-air-show-13834630.html

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