Military News

Sep 5, 2024Owned by the Navy, San Clemente Island is used for live-fire military exercises. On July 24, 2024, a wildfire burned more than 13,000 acres and severely damaged the island’s electric system.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-09-04/wildfire-navy-base-california-island-live-fire-15073322.html

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Oct 3, 2024Rockwell-Pate, a public affairs officer who called San Diego home, served aboard the Ronald Reagan from 2006 to 2008, while an enlisted sailor, the Navy said. He left the service in 2020, last …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-10-03/navy-burial-at-sea-ronald-reagan-15388187.html

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Aug 25, 2023An F/A-18 Hornet, similar to the one shown here in 2022, crashed in a rural area near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California on Aug. 24, 2023. (Zachary Larsen/Marine Corps)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-08-25/marine-jet-crash-pilot-dead-miramar-11160381.html

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Aug 14, 2023Pfc. Jaskirat Singh, left, passes a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in California on Aug. 14, 2023. Singh graduated with the Marine Corps’ Golf Company, 2nd Recruit …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-08-14/sikh-marine-corps-graduation-11044063.html

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Feb 9, 2024The area includes San Diego County’s second highest mountain, Cuyamaca Peak, at 6,512 feet, and is also near the Cleveland National Forest, which covers 720 square miles with much of it steep …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-02-09/marines-dead-missing-helicopter-california-12952219.html

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Oct 28, 2024A U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor with Charlie Company guides recruits through dynamic warmups before a physical training session at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in California on Oct. 1 …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-10-28/empathy-added-marine-leadership-traits-15651732.html

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Jul 22, 2024The committee also requested that Japan and the U.S. “drastically revise” the status of forces agreement governing U.S. military and civilian personnel in the country, saying it privileges U.S …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-22/okinawa-troops-alleged-sex-crimes-14558062.html

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AUSTIN, Texas — A 29-year-old sergeant at Fort Hood was charged Tuesday with multiple counts of premeditated attempted murder, rape, kidnapping and burglary in connection to an Oct. 2 incident …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-10-26/fort-hood-soldier-rape-murder-7822405.html

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May 29, 2024The premediated murder charge carries a maximum penalty of death, according to military law. The Army issued a “WANTED” poster for Jonathan Kang Lee after he deserted from Joint Base Lewis …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-29/army-deserter-soldier-murder-sex-assault-lewis-mcchord-14018143.html

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President Joe Biden stands to present the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee, left, for his actions in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, 2013, during an event in the East Room of the White …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-12-16/medal-of-honor-ceremony-soldiers-white-house-biden-3996485.html

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Father Daniel Mode, then chaplain of the U.S. Coast Guard, visits with the commands of U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam and Base Guam in Guam on Dec. 4, 2023.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2024-04-25/coast-guard-chaplain-navy-fired-13658681.html

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The 2003 Army report regarding the ambush of the 507th said the soldiers followed procedures of the military’s Law of War and Code of Conduct. “They fought the best they could until there was no …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/battle-heroes-of-fort-bliss-maintenance-company-remembered-1.213200

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The Navy has not identified the pilot and electronic weapons officer who were flying the missing jet. A MH-60S Sea Hawk search and rescue helicopter was used overnight to look for signs of the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-16/navy-growler-crash-mount-rainier-15522848.html

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CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Gen. Robert Abrams permanently ended the hugely unpopular 1-to-5 a.m. curfew for U.S. service members in South Korea on Tuesday after a six-month suspension proved …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/final-decision-us-military-permanently-ends-curfew-for-troops-in-south-korea-1.611437

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TAMA, Japan — Five decades after the first golfer teed off here, the U.S. military’s 18-hole golf course in the Japanese capital is a lush oasis of green in a concrete jungle.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/former-wwii-ammo-depot-marks-50-years-as-us-military-s-golf-course-in-tokyo-1.612207

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The House Oversight and Veterans’ Affairs committees released results Monday of a 19-month investigation into Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, lawyer Marc Sherman and Bruce …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-09-27/maralago-trump-veterans-affairs-investigation-lawsuit-3040530.html

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Italian news reports and law enforcement authorities did not identify the airman or the other man arrested in the stabbing, which happened around 4:45 a.m. Sunday in the Palmavira nightclub …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-09-10/airman-under-investigation-in-venice-stabbing-15128334.html

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A Navy officer’s release by U.S. authorities from his prison term for two 2021 traffic deaths near Mount Fuji has stirred a wave of criticism by Japanese on social media.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-01-22/alkonis-release-japan-social-media-backlash-12754445.html

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The Pentagon canceled a major U.S. Army exercise that was slated to begin later this month in the country of Georgia, amid accusations that Tbilisi waged an anti-American misinformation campaign.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-08/pentagon-georgia-noble-partner-cancelled-14419572.html

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Kwon considered joining a research firm or working for a nonprofit agency but ultimately decided the Army was the best route to start her post-college career. She was commissioned through the Army …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-01-23/south-korea-child-actor-us-army-un-command-4393817.html

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