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If confirmed, Langley would be based in Stuttgart, Germany, assuming control of roughly 6,000 U.S. troops in Africa, including about 1,300 in West Africa and about 3,500 at a base in Djibouti, a …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-07-20/marines-langley-four-stars-africom-6710084.html

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“I don’t know how it used to be,” said Donald Mayfield Jr., a 20-year-old supply specialist from Lake Charles, La.. “But I can say it definitely is a good thing going back to it.” …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/army-unit-puts-a-new-spin-on-old-payday-activities-1.276042

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Mar 8, 2023 – The news comes two months after a member of the Falcons’ football team, Hunter Brown, 21, of Lake Charles, La., died Jan. 9 after suffering a medical emergency on his way to class. Brown, who …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-03-08/air-force-academy-cadet-death-9431330.html

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Jun 22, 2023 – The Navy has until Sept. 30 to meet its recruitment goal of 37,700 new active-duty sailors. An update on the Navy’s recruitment numbers was not available, Parker said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-06-22/navy-sailors-bonus-nuclear-recruits-10521427.html

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Brig. Gen. Paul Birch, head of the 36th Wing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, was relieved Tuesday by 11th Air Force commander Lt. Gen. David Nahom, according to a 36th Wing statement that day.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-03-21/guam-andersen-air-force-commander-relieved-9558425.html

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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — The 1st Special Forces Command has a new leader. Maj. Gen. John Brennan relinquished command Aug. 12 to Maj. Gen. Richard E. Angle during a change of …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-08-22/fort-bragg-1st-special-forces-command-leader-richard-angle-2637962.html

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STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. 7th Army should be reactivated in Germany and the Navy’s European headquarters in Naples should be relocated to the United Kingdom as part of a revamped NATO …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-06-06/nato-germany-army-14098233.html

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An Illinois native who’s reported for news outlets in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Oregon and California, he’s an alumnus of the Defense Language Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-11-18/marine-africa-centcom-crisis-response-spmagtf-ended-3668945.html

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Paul X. Rinn, a Vietnam War veteran and ship captain who in 1988 led a desperate effort to save a U.S. Navy vessel from sinking after it struck an Iranian mine, died Aug. 3. He was 75.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/obituaries/2022-08-10/obit-paul-rinn-navy-captain-saved-warship-sinking-dies-6942020.html

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Feb 9, 2024 – Staff Sgt. Larry Davis reunites with his children, Parker and Camryn, and wife, Samantha, during a welcome home ceremony for the 3rd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Regiment on Feb. 8, 2024 – , at …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-02-09/nh-guard-home-deployment-middle-east-12952066.html

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Born in California, the 31-year-old former enlisted soldier gave up a successful business in Missoula, Mont., to rejoin the Army after Sept. 11, 2001.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/fob-lagman-service-honors-fallen-soldiers-in-afghanistan-1.37612

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Jun 27, 2023 – Lt. Col. Jon-Paul Depreo went from commanding an engineer battalion at Fort Johnson to prison-bound in less than six months after he pleaded guilty Monday to charges of assault and conduct …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-27/army-fort-johnson-colonel-assault-prison-10570488.html

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Oct 17, 2023 – VICENZA, Italy — The U.S. Army’s latest air defense unit in Europe debuted Tuesday, as a ceremony at Caserma Del Din reactivated a third battery to join its two Germany-based counterparts.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-10-17/shorad-battery-reactivated-vicenza-11734530.html

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — St. Augustine may have seemed a long way from the fighting of World War II, but a St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum exhibit shows how …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2021-08-02/st.-augustine-lighthouse-coast-guard-2409445.html

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St. Agid Bergheim Church in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, was restored and converted into a bat sanctuary. A ceremony Sept. 27, 2021 – , marked the completion of the project. (Nathaniel Gayle/U.S …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-10-06/army-church-bats-hohenfels-base-3147496.html

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Climate change’s biggest impact on national defense is the way it “undermines and destabilizes societies,” said Sharon Burke, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for operational energy.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-09-09/climate-change-global-warming-defense-military-2833744.html

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A U.S. Air Force pararescue team flew 11 hours and jumped into the Pacific Ocean to aid injured Chinese sailors in distress off the coast of Mexico after their fishing vessel caught fire and sank …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/air-force-pararescue-team-aids-chinese-sailors-in-pacific-1.281470

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James Benally and Kristen June, stepfather and mother of murder victim Spc. Clint Lamebear, leave the trial of their son’s killers in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/2nd-life-sentence-in-killing-of-soldier-1.7617

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The Pentagon announced June 9, 2022 – , that Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley has been appointed to the rank of general with an assignment as the next leader of U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-06-10/new-marine-commander-stuttgart-6295405.html

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Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations with the Department of the Air Force, in a statement Friday wrote: “The Air Force takes full responsibility for releasing the information.” …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-01-21/air-force-candidate-documents-8838697.html

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