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Jul 23, 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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Oct 22, 2024U.S. paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and Polish soldiers engage targets during training in Nowa Deba, Poland, March 15, 2022.

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Jul 1, 2023A B-52 Stratofortress from the 343rd Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana takes off from Griffiss International Airport in Rome, New York, on Friday, June 30, 2023.

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Mar 19, 2024New York Air National Guard soldiers and airmen salute as a New York Army National Guard Honor Guard team carries the remains of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Casey Frankoski from a 109th Airlift Wing …

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Oct 3, 2024Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Justin Gates of the 12th Littoral Logistics Battalion, left, and battalion commander Lt. Col. Leo Spaeder reveal the battalion’s new flag at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, on Oct …

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Aug 13, 2024A Fort Drum soldier faces a murder charge in the death of another soldier in his 10th Mountain Division unit at the Army post in upstate New York, service officials said Tuesday. The Army charged Spc.

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Aug 22, 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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Sep 6, 2024Seaman Apprentice Albert Lee Soto, 18, was shot and killed following an altercation in San Diego, police said. Soto was a native of New York and had been in the Navy for less than a year. He …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-09-06/navy-sailor-shot-killed-san-diego-15090669.html

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Jun 30, 2024A retired New York Army National Guard soldier received the Bronze Star Medal with “V’ device last week in recognition of his heroic actions 20 years ago in Iraq.

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Feb 2, 2023You’ve probably heard about George Santos, the newly elected U.S. representative for New York’s 3rd Congressional District, who admitted to lying on the campaign trail about his background and …

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2023-02-02/modern-journalism-military-veterans-9019350.html

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Aug 6, 2023The U.S. Army has a new enlisted leader. Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Weimer officially assumed responsibility as the 17th sergeant major of the Army from Michael Grinston during a ceremony Friday at …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-08-06/sergeant-major-army-weimer-10964307.html

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The New York, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, is a living memorial. The ship, commissioned Nov. 7, 2009, in New York, cuts through the sea with a bow forged from 7½ tons of …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-09-11/uss-new-york-living-memorial-sept-11-15141932.html

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Edwin D. Fragoso, 45, of Freeport, N.Y., pleaded guilty Friday in New York’s Eastern District federal court to one count of conspiracy. He paid nearly $100,000 in bribes to a NEX employee in …

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The driver was New York Yankee Jerry Coleman. The passenger was Ted Williams, who had been recalled to active duty after flying in World War II. Williams, the Red Sox legend, thanked Fasulo.

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Mar 3, 2023Ethan Phelan Melzer, a 24-year-old from Louisville, Ky., pleaded guilty in June in a federal courtroom in New York to charges of attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-03-03/army-soldiers-italy-ambush-paratrooper%C2%A0-9343669.html

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WASHINGTON — Papotia Reginald Wright started the 8th Special Forces Regiment New York Honor Guard more than a year ago to perform burial services for veterans.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/stolen-valor-fake-green-beret-forced-to-shut-down-honor-guard-group-1.504969

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Bruce Swander’s version of the U.S. military passenger list for Flight 739. No government agencies — Army, Air Force, Defense Department, National Archives, State Department, CIA — could …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/unofficial-us-military-passenger-list-for-flight-739-1.232037

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Brooks was from Brooklyn and joined the Army in July of 2012. He was initially assigned to Fort Hood in Texas from where he served a deployment to Afghanistan from June to November of 2014 …

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Jun 24, 2024Commuters ride a subway in New York on May 25, 2022. State legislators and law enforcement are reinstating dormant laws that criminalize mask-wearing to penalize pro-Palestinian protesters who …

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Jun 20, 2024NEW YORK (Tribune News Service) — A mob of teens threw traffic cones and bottles at a Jewish man on a Brooklyn street, police said Wednesday. The 41-year-old victim, dressed in Orthodox Jewish …

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