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Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous voice vote on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to become the next commander of U.S. Southern Command, which will make her just …

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Dec 12, 2022The active-duty 509th Bomb Wing and the Air National Guard’s 131st Bomb Wing operate a fleet of 20 B-2 Spirits at Whiteman, which is 45 miles east of Kansas City.

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The Marines who went there in mid-August were practicing expeditionary advanced basing operations, Bowser, 36, of Kansas City, Mo., said by phone Tuesday. “We were rehearsing to operate from an …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-09-15/marine-f-35b-advanced-basing-australia-7350754.html

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Fellow Marines in Hawaii and North Carolina expressed their grief in online posts. Marines from Camp Hansen in Okinawa donated money via the funeral home website to have a tree planted in his memory.

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President Donald Trump honors World War II veteran Allen Q. Jones on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, by inviting the 94-year-old onto the stage at the VFW convention in the Kansas City, Mo., Municipal …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/pew-survey-vets-support-of-trump-as-commander-exceeds-public-s-but-some-question-his-military-judgment-1.598182

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Sgt. Tyler M. Rankin, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., disappeared Thursday off the coast of Hamada Beach in Shimane prefecture, according to a statement Tuesday from Marine Aircraft Group 12. He was a KC …

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Jul 14, 2024A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft conduct an aerial demonstration during the 2024 Wings Over Whiteman Air Show at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo …

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Jun 27, 2024BERKELEY, Missouri — Boeing is moving forward with its combat aircraft expansion project near its Berkeley complex, though recent comments from military officials have injected new uncertainty …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-06-27/boeing-advanced-combat-aircraft-missouri-14315381.html

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Apr 20, 2024The modernization of nuclear technology is dependent on the work of hundreds of thousands of people around the country, Huser added, especially in places such as Savannah, Georgia; Kansas City …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-04-20/nuclear-technology-modernization-cheyenne-wyo-13609314.html

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Jan 8, 2024In 1991, a missing persons case rocked James Hinkle’s hometown of Clinton, Mo. The abduction of Angela Hammond, a 20-year-old taken from a phone booth as she called her fiancé, garnered …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-01-08/navy-veteran-missing-youtuber-cold-case-12597100.html

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The hangar was designed by Burns and McDonnell, an engineering and architecture firm in Kansas City, Mo. It is expected to take three years to build and will be located at the end of the base’s …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2021-10-20/westover-air-reserve-base-breaks-ground-hangar-firearms-range-3310328.html

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May 22, 2023An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., flies over Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Nov. 15, 2022.

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Though Johnson was paraded through New York City as a hero after the war, his disability pension was denied and he died of his war wounds in 1929. After his death, Johnson was awarded the Purple …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-13/fort-polk-johnson-confederate-army-10427731.html

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Instead, the incident did not become public until Nov. 15 when The New York Times reported it. The Pentagon began the independent review about two weeks later.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2022-05-17/baghuz-syria-airstrikes-civilians-killed-investigation-6036764.html

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He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. Subscribe to Stars and Stripes Just 99c a week! Subscribe. stars and stripes videos.

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This year’s Resolute Dragon featured approximately 3,000 Marines and 5,700 Japanese troops, III MEF spokesman 1st Lt. Owen Hitchcock said at the ceremony.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-08-07/resolute-dragon-marine-littoral-japan-14774688.html

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Jenks, of Gansevoort, New York, died April 19 during a static line training accident while jumping from a UH-60 Blackhawk at Fort Bragg. She was part of the 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-11-23/82nd-airborne-division-fort-bragg-memorial-ceremony-3724713.html

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Pilots assigned to the Electronic Attack Squadron 130 are greeted by friends, family and service members upon their return home to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., July 13, 2024.

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He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. Subscribe to Stars and Stripes Just 99c a week! Subscribe. stars and stripes videos.

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The Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron sergeant major said his family left Panama for New York when he was 4 years old looking for better opportunities. “Eventually, I joined the Marine …

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