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Marines at Camp Fuji, Japan, will hold their annual fire memorial ceremony on Friday. The observance marks the Oct. 19, 1979, blaze that claimed the lives of 13 Marines and injured dozens more.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/marines-recall-1979-fire-at-camp-fuji-that-claimed-13-lives-1.70045

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Oct 29, 2024Fukuoka Prefectural police found the woman after receiving a report at 9:20 a.m. Monday from a hotel in the city’s Chuo district, a police spokesman told Stars and Stripes by phone Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-10-29/navy-spouse-death-probe-japan-15662836.html

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Feb 27, 2024MHS Genesis was developed as a “state-of-the-market electronic health record system” for the Military Health System under a $4.3 billion contract signed in 2015 with Leidos Partnership for …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-02-27/mhs-genesis-outage-military-hospitals-13131983.html

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Sep 12, 2024The U.K. has obsoleted its own military, yielding global dominance to the U.S., who with superior industrial might, could send more dreadnoughts down the slipways. The collapse of American …

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2024-09-12/american-military-death-by-thousand-drones-15152134.html

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Jul 17, 2024Updated 12:25 p.m. Central European Time, July 19, 2024. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Four people were injured when three U.S. military trucks collided with each other and a car traveling on …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-07-17/army-truck-accident-bavaria-14516254.html

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Dharm, 40, has been named the first Hindu chaplain to serve the Department of Defense. Hinduism, with nearly a billion adherents worldwide — but fewer than 1,000 active servicemembers …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/military-s-first-hindu-chaplain-brings-a-diverse-background-1.145455

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Oct 1, 2024He has worked in military communities stateside and overseas for nearly two decades. He is a graduate of the Defense Information School and Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-10-01/protest-wiesbaden-army-europe-berlin-15367088.html

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Dec 12, 2023Sen. Richard Blumenthal pledged Tuesday to issue a subpoena to the Coast Guard if service officials do not provide emails on a cover-up of dozens of sexual assaults at the service academy that had …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2023-12-12/coast-guard-academy-sexual-assault-coverup-12340348.html

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Sep 23, 2024A report issued by the U.S. Army War College said U.S. policymakers should consider making permanent the deployments of armored combat brigades that for the past decade have been the centerpiece …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-09-23/army-brigades-europe-ukraine-nato-15272203.html

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Jan 18, 2023The Army announced Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, that its new rifle, seen here, will be named the M7 once soldiers are equipped with it. (U.S. Army )

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-01-18/army-rifle-m7-squad-weapon-8809878.html

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“Gang membership in the armed forces can disrupt good order and discipline, increase criminal activity on and off military installations, and compromise installation security and force …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/gangs-in-the-military-how-much-do-we-know-1.60141

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Sep 3, 2024″The military totally went out of everyday life,” said Falko Drossmann, a lawmaker in Germany’s parliament on leave from the air force. “You don’t see soldiers, you don’t see weapons. …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-09-03/military-recruiting-strategy-germany-america-15056821.html

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He emphasized that the U.S. Military Academy is a university. “I want to understand white rage. And I’m white,” Milley said, focused on learning more about the mostly white, mostly male mob …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-06-23/Top-US-military-leader-I-want-to-understand-White-rage-And-I%E2%80%99m-White-1782808.html

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May 22, 2024The Army approved the request in April 2023. USFJ then assigned a team led by Lt. Col. Matt Wright to work with the Army’s Institute of Heraldry at Fort Belvoir, Va., to design the new patch.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-22/new-army-patch-japan-13936039.html

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Oct 10, 2024The five storage and maintenance facilities, collectively called the Powidz Army Prepositioned Stocks-2, are the military alliance’s largest infrastructure project in 30 years and will allow the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-10-10/army-poland-military-equipment-nato-15453916.html

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Sep 18, 2024The apologies are a rare concession from the U.S. military. American troops committed atrocities against Native people for decades, and in many cases celebrated their deaths as achievements.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-09-18/us-military-apologizes-alaska-natives-terror-campaign-15219936.html

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The memo also made the rounds on Twitter and military Facebook groups this week, with some people questioning its authenticity. Christina Wright, a public affairs officer with the 8th Army, said …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/army-no-va-benefits-for-false-warning-of-bad-anthrax-vaccine-1.523097

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With April being Month of the Military Child, Stars and Stripes is asking you in the Pacific and European theaters to tell us your story. Leah. Humphreys Middle School. Rey. Sullivans Elementary School. Ammon . Humphreys Central Elementary School. Nydia. Iwakuni Intermediate School. Previous Next. Leah.

https://militarychild.stripes.com/

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Oct 4, 2024All categories of felony crime attributed to the U.S. military population on the island have fallen since Okinawa reverted to Japanese control in 1972, according to data obtained in August from …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-10-04/okinawa-military-crime-statistics-15398023.html

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Aug 30, 2024TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Sgt. 1st Class Dane Beaston had endured the stress, frustration and disappointment of one of the worst recruiting slumps in the half-century history of the U.S. military’s …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-08-30/army-recruitment-shortfall-divided-country-15025672.html

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