“I like living out here,” said Staff Sgt. Robert Stephens, 32, from Texarkana, Texas. “Being out here, at the platoon level, gives us more involvement in the decision-making process.
https://www.stripes.com/migration/soldiers-don-t-sweat-basic-living-conditions-at-fob-mizan-1.47483
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Army Col. Martin Stanton has been in Iraq before as a prisoner of war. In 1990, Stanton was a 33-year-old major advising the 2nd Brigade, Saudi Arabian National Guard.
https://www.stripes.com/migration/former-army-pow-retraces-his-captivity-1.6385
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A new education center has opened at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, offering servicemembers a range of military and civilian learning opportunities. The LSA Education Center officially opened …
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A Vilseck, Germany-based soldier will spend the next 25 years behind bars for selling and distributing the popular party drug Ecstasy. In a two-day jury trial last week, Army Pvt. Christopher …
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Journal-News, Hamilton, Ohio March 4, 2023 – A memorial featuring the Wright brothers’ aircraft is seen at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in a 2012 posting. (Facebook)
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The streets reopened to traffic and the more than 3,400 people residing within the evacuated area were allowed to return home shortly after the bomb was defused, according to the city.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-02-17/wwii-bomb-germany-evacuated-military-9173993.html
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Jun 27, 2023 – YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan The Air Force has broken ground on a $97 million hangar and maintenance facility for special operations CV-22 Osprey aircraft at this airlift hub in western Tokyo.
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Eventually he passed even the swimming portion. After intelligence specialist school in Virginia Beach, Va., he completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, graduating in 1988.
https://www.stripes.com/migration/navy-seal-taking-reins-as-fleet-master-chief-a-rarity-1.563992
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Now, it is a bustling tent city with a population of 1,400 troops and civilians living with many of the creature comforts of home. … Currently, 650 Texas National Guard soldiers, 300 Germany …
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Gorden, of Ellicott City, Md., was in the late 1980s the first Black commandant of cadets at West Point. “It’s quite exhilarating, to say the least,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday …
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-09-01/buffalo-soldiers-statue-west-point-2737519.html
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The 13 service members’ remains arrived Sunday at Dover Air Force Base, Del. President Joe Biden, his wife, Jill Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other administration officials stood …
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Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the committee and a former chairman of the panel, warned fellow committee members last month against “reckless” actions that could ruin the …
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A Marine on Okinawa faces up to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to driving recklessly prior to a crash that killed a Japanese pedestrian last year.
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The decision was a “breakthrough in bilateral negotiations on the return of land lots the U.S. Navy occupies in Yokohama,” the report stated.
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But it’s the British health system that worries Nadeau the most. “I just hear these horror stories about how long you have to wait,” she said.
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(Joseph Giordono / S&S) Members of the Djiboutian army’s administrative corps stand at attention during the ceremony marking the donation of patrol boats Thursday morning. (Joseph Giordono / S&S)
https://www.stripes.com/migration/u-s-donation-of-patrol-boats-beefs-up-djibouti-s-navy-1.50402
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(Joseph Xu/University of Michigan) CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa It seemed like science fiction when the first prosthetic leg was surgically implanted in a post-9/11 veteran two years ago in Utah. Now …
https://www.stripes.com/migration/navy-program-aiming-for-intelligence-in-prosthetics-1.511211
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Capt. Jeff Kuss takes off and accelerates to perform a low transition/split S on takeoff at the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show on May 14, 2016. (Andrea Perez/U.S. Navy) Capt. Jeff Kuss.
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Dec 14, 2023 – Sgt. Fabio Santana, assigned to the 100th Military Working Dog Detachment, briefs troops during a missing prisoner exercise at Sembach Kaserne, Germany, Dec. 14, 2023 – .
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-12-14/jailbreak-exercise-sembach-germany-12359272.html
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Apr 8, 2024 – (Joseph Barron/U.S. Air Force) An Army chief warrant officer who was stationed in Alaska has pleaded guilty after inappropriately touching two teenagers during commercial flights last year.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-04-08/army-alaska-flight-misconduct-13511849.html
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