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Jun 18, 2024Originally 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.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-06-18/camp-fuji-japan-command-welborn-owens-14218137.html

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May 16, 2024MIAMI — The USS Harry S. Truman will soon lead a Navy strike group into the volatile Red Sea, where U.S. sailors have fought almost daily for months to down drones and missiles launched by …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-16/truman-eisenhower-read-sea-deployment-houthis-israel-hamas-13875513.html

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May 19, 2024The USS Carney is home at last. Family, friends, fellow sailors and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro were on hand Sunday at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., when the Arleigh Burke-class guided …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-19/uss-carney-homeport-navy-unit-commendation-13907826.html

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Oct 23, 2024Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide U.S. Military Europe PACOM Campuses expanded their Pacific campus presence and commemorated a new campus location at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea on October 17, 2024. The demand for ERAU degrees and programs has grown exponentially since 2015 when ERAU first joined the Voluntary Education Program on OCONUS bases in the Pacific.

https://korea.stripes.com/education/embry-riddle-aeronautical-university-opens-new-campus-at-kunsan-air-base.html

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Jun 6, 2024About 1,000 Air National Guard members across 14 units work on space missions in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, New York and Ohio, according to the National Guard Association.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2024-06-06/air-space-force-national-guard-14103464.html

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Oct 22, 2024A West Point colonel accused of drinking with a cadet, making sexual comments to members of the women’s tennis team and asking a student to lie during an investigation had the charges against …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-22/west-point-colonel-drinking-cadets-charges-dropped-15595622.html

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Oct 10, 2024A U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk with three crew members on board made a “precautionary landing” on Chigasaki Beach along Sagami Bay about 30 miles southwest of Tokyo. A Navy spokesman did not …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-10-09/navy-atsugi-helicopter-chigasaki-15460926.html

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The controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery — on a former golf course in the melon-farming area of Seongju, 190 miles south of Seoul — is manned by a unit known as …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/army-s-thaad-presence-in-s-korea-gets-permanent-home-amid-rough-living-conditions-1.552504

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Oct 4, 2024Hill, an electrician’s mate from Florida, enlisted in December 2018 and had served aboard Truman since October 2020, according to his service biography.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-10-04/sailor-truman-dies-atlantic-15399098.html

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WASHINGTON — A 33-year-old Navy lieutenant was killed Wednesday when the F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet that he was piloting through a Death Valley canyon crashed into a ravine wall at high …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/33-year-old-navy-lieutenant-killed-in-death-valley-super-hornet-crash-1.593007

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Jun 14, 2024The confluence of Russian, Canadian and U.S. vessels in Cuba — a Communist-run island nation just 90 miles south of Florida — was a reminder of old Cold War tensions and fraught ties between …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-06-14/us-attack-sub-canada-patrol-ship-cuba-14181845.html

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Jun 27, 2024Then, this season, a program that assists military families organized the Gilberts’ last two trips — to the Tampa Bay Rays’ Tropicana Field and the Marlins’ LoanDepot Park — just weeks …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-27/air-force-colonel-erick-gilbert-visit-every-mlb-field-14315375.html

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Aug 17, 2024A video screen grab shows two vessels, one of which is a 120-foot-long former Navy mine sweeper, parked on Bohicket Creek, S.C. (YouTube)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-08-17/former-navy-vessel-abandoned-sc-coast-14890957.html

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Jun 5, 2024Martin “Marty” Sylvester, center, and his son, Paul, visit Utah Beach with a group of veterans on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Sylvester landed at Utah Beach on June 7, 1944, the day after D-Day.

https://www.stripes.com/special-reports/featured/d-day/2024-06-05/wwii-american-soldier-escape-nazis-14086310.html

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Arnett said her defense lawyer, Marine Capt. Brentt McGee, moved last week to delay her two-day trial indefinitely based on Thursday’s order by U.S District Court Judge Steven Merryday in Tampa …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-08-23/marine-japan-coronavirus-discharge-7076715.html

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Jun 13, 2024On June 14, 1775, 249 years ago, the Second Continental Congress founded a united army to bring the 13 colonies together in the fight for independence from Great Britain.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-06-13/us-army-birthday-249th-2024-14172007.html

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Mar 29, 2024The drones, launched by Houthi militants from areas they control in Yemen, were aimed at a “coalition vessel and a U.S. warship,” between 6 p.m. and 10:56 p.m. local time, according to a news …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-03-28/houthis-drones-us-navy-attack-red-sea-13448438.html

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Aug 11, 2024U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ruben Pickering, a forward air controller with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and a native of Costa Rica, is welcomed by his …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-08-11/marines-return-home-uss-somerset-14834996.html

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Mar 30, 2023Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Delwin Ellington, seen here receiving the noncommissioned officer sword during a ceremony in Tampa, Fla., on July 8, 2022, making him the top NCO of Marine Forces Central …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-03-30/marcent-marines-fired-9648533.html

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Jul 26, 2023Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said lawmakers who recently traveled to an Air Force base in Florida to investigate reported UAP sightings by military pilots were stonewalled by the Pentagon.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-07-26/ufos-uap-congress-pentagon-navy-veterans-aliens-10864115.html

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