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The stern but soft-spoken son of a sharecropper born in Jim Crow-era South Carolina, Capers would enlist in the Marines at 18 without an inkling he would spend the next two decades wearing the …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/documentary-looks-to-tell-the-remarkable-story-of-marine-special-operator-james-capers-jr-1.530814

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Nov 10, 2024 – FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Index cards taped to a large board on the wall at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, reveal the sometimes blunt and gritty reasons that new recruits took a chance at a last-ditch …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-11-10/army-recruits-prep-course-15801096.html

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U.S. Army recruiting students talk with potential recruits during an exercise in Chicago, July 17, 2019. The Army is now offering recruits a guaranteed first assignment at select posts.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-02-28/army-continues-to-bolster-recruiting-offers-with-guaranteed-assignment-offer-to-select-bases-5175190.html

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Khanun at 3 p.m. Monday was 349 miles southeast of Kadena, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The storm was just shy of becoming a super typhoon and moving north-northwest at 10 mph …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-07-31/typhoon-khanun-okinawa-japan-10916391.html

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CAMP BLAZ, Guam — Piles of clay-laden limestone, volcanic rock and machinery occupy the site that is becoming Camp Blaz, the first new Marine Corps installation in 70 years.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-09/camp-blaz-guam-marine-corps-base-8365774.html

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A U.S. Army map shows shows current and projected sites for the service in Poland, including the new headquarters in the west central city of Poznan.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2023-03-28/army-poland-base-9627391.html

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In all, the U.S. will invest about $1.6 billion at the Ansbach garrison by 2032, the Bavarian government said in a statement Wednesday. The new Ansbach units, expected to take up their positions …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-17/ansbach-army-germany-8087412.html

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Air National Guard leaders estimated up to 70% of their space-focused airmen would resist a transfer to Space Force should Congress approve an Air Force proposal to move 14 Guard units into the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2024-05-07/air-space-force-national-guard-governors-troops-13783950.html

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Coast Guard rescue swimmer Derrian Duryea is lowered from a hovering helicopter to pull a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just yards from the brink of American Falls, one of …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/coast_guard/2021-12-11/what-we-do-rescue-swimmer-discusses-daring-descent-3935915.html

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Lt. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, gives a speech in March 2021 at Fort Campbell, Ky. The Senate on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022 – , voted unanimously to confirm Kurilla …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-02-22/kurilla-army-general-centcom-military-middle-east-5109593.html

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum, Nov. 2, 2024 – , in Greensboro, NC.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-11-21/matt-gaetz-withdraws-attorney-general-nomination-15924493.html

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A historical reenactor in period American military dress waves to the crowd during Liberation Festival Pilsen’s parade of military vehicles, called the Convoy of Liberty, on Sunday, May 5, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-05-06/war-army-czech-liberation-nazis-13767038.html

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday ordered additional warships, including destroyers and cruisers, and an additional fighter squadron to the Middle East to bolster defenses as …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-08-02/pentagon-military-deployments-middle-east-israel-iran-14713596.html

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With just over a month left in the fiscal year, the Army, the largest service, expects to reach only 52% of its recruiting goal for a shortfall of 12,000 to 15,000 recruits.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-08-23/military-recruiting-struggles-7077916.html

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May 6, 2024 – The dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard and the destroyer USS Gravely conduct a replenishment at sea in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 8, 2023 – . The Navy blamed the grounding of the Alan Shepard in Bahrain …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-06/alan-shepard-aground-investigation-13768299.html

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An honor guard of the Gettysburg Blues, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, stand at attention Saturday as wreaths are laid in ceremonies honoring 20 Union soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/soldiers-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-remembered-at-antietam-scene-of-america-s-bloodiest-day-1.337302

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Dec 13, 2023 – The West Virginia National Guard celebrates the 387th birthday of the National Guard at Joint Forces Headquarters in Charleston, W.Va., Dec. 13, 2023 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-12-13/national-guard-387th-birthday-12350683.html

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Jul 21, 2023 – The base is also home to nearly 5,000 full-time civilian and military personnel along with primary aircraft such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II and KC-135 Stratotanker (Michigan Air National Guard …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-07-21/michigan-selfridge-base-northern-border-center-10813453.html

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Cavalier Air Force Station, N.D., home of the 10th Space Warning Squadron, has led the way in the fields of missile warning and space surveillance with its powerful Perimeter Acquisition Radar …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2021-07-29/cavalier-air-force-station-space-force-2360354.html

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Defense Department officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 – , that the Pentagon needs to use social media to change young peoples’ perception of the military to help entice them …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-09-21/military-recruiting-problems-social-media-7422004.html

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