HEIDELBERG, Germany An upcoming exercise designed to rehearse war plans for an invasion of Iraq has been expanded to include five of the Army’s 10 divisions.
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Feb 19, 2024 – The Trailblazers of USS Delbert D. Black are back home in Florida after a three-month surge deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and its crew returned to a warm …
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Sep 26, 2023 – The Navy fired the USS Alabama’s skipper on Friday, a little over a year after he took command of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. Cmdr. Michael Lyle, who led the Alabama’s blue …
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Lt. Col. Clinton Kappel and Sgt. Maj. Elson Aviles of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment were relieved Thursday by Maj. Gen. David Furness, the commander of the 2nd Marine Division, “due to …
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Feb 1, 2024 – Originally 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.
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May 16, 2023 – AUSTIN, Texas Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending 800 of the state’s National Guard troops to work for one month along the Texas border with Mexico as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on non …
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YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — The U.S. Army and its chaplains are helping the Catholic Church recruit priests who could serve in the Pacific theater. The effort is not altogether new.
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In this May 2006 photo, Command Sgt. Maj. Iuniasolua Savusa, the new command sergeant major for U.S. Army, Europe, right, and USAREUR Commander Gen. David D. McKiernan salute during the national …
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Nov 14, 2024 – WASHINGTON Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, senior defense officials said.
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A U.S. Navy hovercraft delivered an Army surface-to-air missile defense system to a Philippine beach for the first time during recent amphibious drills involving U.S. and Philippine troops.
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Capt. George Doyon speaks to sailors aboard the USS Green Bay, June 21, 2017. Doyon has been relieved of his duties as Amphibious Squadron 11 commander for mishandling staff harassment complaints.
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Nov 16, 2024 – People line up to vote in a referendum on whether to adopt a new constitution, in Libreville, Gabon, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024 – . (Betines Makosso/AP)
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The Air Force will begin loaning free maternity uniforms to pregnant service members this fall at 10 locations, service officials said. All but two of the 10 bases chosen to demo the “Rent the …
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Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond Chandler talks to Command Sgt. Maj. Eric Volk, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, upon arriving at Forward Operating Base Zangabad in Kandahar province Wednesday.
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Sligh, a 28-year-old currently living in South Carolina, dedicated folk artist Ray LaMontagne’s song “Trouble” to his wife, Sarah, and received similar warm reviews.
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An RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone lands at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 12, 2022 – . It is the first of three that will be operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
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Michelle spent only six months with him. Du Tran was in Iraq from May 2003 to July 2004 and from January 2006 to February 2007 before he left with Battery C, Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry …
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Staff Sgt. Damian Remijio, left, and Pfc. Zachary Fitch, with Company D, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, were wounded during an April 12, 2012, ambush in a village in eastern Khost province.
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Having a Muslim speak would have been preferable, the chaplain said, but he was “impressed with the passion” and sincerity of the seminar speakers.
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Lance Cpl. Jordan Begaye, 22, of Camp Foster, Okinawa, was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison by Naha District Court, Thursday, May 26, 2022 – . He had been convicted of attempted sexual assault …
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