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The Army’s 11th Airborne Division, revived two years ago to serve as combat-ready unit for potential conflict near the Arctic Circle, changed command on June 27 for the first time. Maj. Gen …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-01/alaska-artic-army-soldiers-command-14359337.html

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An upstate New York native who served three years in the U.S. Army before graduating from the University of Arizona, she previously worked at The Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times. Over …

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Slutman joined the Marine Corps in November 2005 and deployed to Iraq for about 11 months in spring 2008, Marine Force Reserve said. He also served in Mozambique for a month in 2010.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/marines-killed-in-afghanistan-blast-died-only-days-before-they-were-to-come-home-1.576402

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Family members greet the Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine USS Vermont as it arrives July 27, 2023, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-12-05/pearl-harbor-wwii-submarines-aircraft-carrier-12267971.html

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In 1942, Lt. Col. Charity Adams served in the newly created Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and eventually led the first African-American women’s unit to serve overseas, the 6888th Postal Battalion.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-04-27/fort-gregg-adams-army-confederates-9942691.html

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The Chesapeake, a 1000-ton lift capacity derrick barge; the Ferrell, a 200-ton lift capacity revolving crane barge; and the Oyster Bay, a 150-ton lift capacity crane barge arrive in Baltimore …

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He soon joined a Navy team working with General Electric to develop the Seawolf in Schenectady, New York. Simultaneously, he and other officers trained in reactor technology and nuclear physics at …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-04-29/retired-captain-us-nuclear-submarine-13702477.html

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A C-130 Hercules assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, part of the New York Air National Guard, flies over Navy SEALs, Norwegian naval special operations commandos and the attack submarine USS …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-03-13/seals-green-berets-arctic-13304192.html

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The USS Nimitz has been the template of American sea power for nearly a half-century. Commissioned four days after the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War in 1975, the 100,000-ton supercarrier …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-12-31/navy-supercarrier-strategy-nimitz-12490948.html

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Among the networks were “some in the telecommunications sector in Guam,” Tom Burt, the head of Microsoft’s customer security and trust team, told the New York Times last year. The Chinese …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-04-18/navy-experimental-technology-guam-security-13587963.html

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The Navy on Friday fired the commander of a guided-missile destroyer that is part of an aircraft carrier strike group deployed in the Middle East to counter attacks on shipping lanes in the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-08-30/navy-commander-fired-mccain-destroyer-middle-east-15024761.html

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A crane used to drive test piles floats in Oura Bay at the site of a future U.S. Marine Corps runway at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, July 9, 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-07-09/oura-bay-seawall-marine-corps-airfield-okinawa-14429070.html

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As vice president, Biden twice addressed a graduating class of cadets at the academy in upstate New York, but this will be his first time to do so as president. Donald Trump was the last president …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-04-23/west-point-biden-commencement-cadets-army-13634051.html

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A M1A2 Abrams tank from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division operates during training at the Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., on Feb. 27, 2023.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-03-08/army-deployments-europe-korea-mideast-9429345.html

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An upstate New York native who served three years in the U.S. Army before graduating from the University of Arizona, she previously worked at The Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times. Over …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/thousands-in-military-community-poisoned-by-carbon-monoxide-over-the-course-of-a-decade-study-finds-1.620155

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Nov 4, 2024F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters from the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base train over the Utah Test and Training Range, May 17, 2017.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-11-04/kadena-okinawa-f35-fighter-rotations-15729050.html

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Aug 16, 2024The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, is investigating how the base clinic administered ineffective doses of MMR and chicken pox vaccines between May and June 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-08-16/18th-wing-kadena-mmr-chicken-pox-vaccine-kadena-14880057.html

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Sep 5, 2024He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon. One of his earliest journalistic inspirations came from reading Stars and Stripes as a …

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A 23-year-old lance corporal from New York was at the center of an incident Tuesday morning at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., that forced the base to lock down for …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/marine-lance-corporal-s-suicide-caused-lockdown-at-twentynine-palms-1.637051

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