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Wi-Fi, cigarettes and hot tea. Also facilitating communication with evacuees is the cultural engagement team. The core of the team consists of two public affairs officers and two Special Forces …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2021-09-07/communication-key-to-ramstein-evacuee-support-2801141.html

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One game, staged at Madison Square Garden in 1948, attracted 15,000 spectators. Over the next four decades, new wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf led to increased pressure to …

https://www.stripes.com/sports/2021-08-29/paralympics-ties-us-military-veterans-2707070.html

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Aug 21, 2024 – American B-2 Spirits recently deployed to eastern Australia for the first bomber task force mission there in over two years. An undisclosed number of aircraft, support personnel and equipment …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-08-21/b2-spirit-stealth-bombers-australia-14931037.html

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They tell the stories of the lives lost and of grieving family members like Beth Hartman, who married Pfc. Roger Madison Hartman on Aug. 31, 1970, the day he turned 20 and she turned 18.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-07-30/grafenwoehr-exhibit-37-US-soldiers-1971-helicopter-crash-2373624.html

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MARINETTE, Wisconsin (Tribune News Service) — The first U.S. Navy ship to honor Nantucket in 150 years was christened Saturday in a ceremony that included Navy, shipbuilding and island officials.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2021-08-12/uss-nantucket-navy-littoral-combat-ship-commissioning-2530487.html

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Dec 20, 2023 – Patriot Point is a nonprofit organization that serves as a retreat center for veterans, their family and caregivers. The Military Bowl Foundation, which runs the Military Bowl being played Dec. 27 …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-12-20/patriot-point-military-bowl-12402482.html

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The entire Lackland training campus has already been outfitted with Wi-Fi so trainees can access course materials from anywhere, and all 107 modules of the training curriculum are available online.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-04-08/ipads-tablets-air-force-bmt-cerego-basic-training-5621949.html

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Aug 24, 2023 – Brig. Gen. David May, Wisconsin’s deputy adjutant general for Air, and Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, welcome Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, to …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-08-23/military-training-exercise-northern-lightening-11142943.html

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Jan 2, 2024 – UPDATE: Madison Marsh was crowned Miss America 2024 on Jan. 14. She is the first active-duty service member to receive the title. Madison Marsh was shooting for the stars four years ago when she …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-01-02/air-force-officer-miss-america-12355421.html

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Jul 20, 2023 – PETA’s letter comes five months after the animal-rights group claimed a small victory when the Navy stopped funding similar lab tests on sheep at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The purpose …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-07-20/peta-pentagon-navy-animal-testing-10802956.html

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A sergeant at Joint Base Lewis-McChord has been sentenced to 5½ years in prison for child rape and assault, the Army said Wednesday. Sgt. Dakota J. Brodsky, a wheeled vehicle mechanic with the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-22/jblm-soldier-child-rape-13943000.html

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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Shereef Elnahal, undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, for withholding information from the VA …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-04/republicans-veterans-affairs-senior-managers-bonuses-pact-act-14079764.html

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The Ticonderoga-class guided missile-cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) passes the USS Arizona memorial as it arrives at its new homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Friday, April 5, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-04-07/uss-antietam-arrives-homeport-hawaii-13506401.html

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The Ospreys will move personnel and cargo to and from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which is due to arrive at Yokosuka Naval Base, its new homeport south of Yokohama, later this year.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-08-29/navy-osprey-squadron-iwakuni-japan-15009973.html

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Army researchers say they now can predict sepsis in burn patients thanks to a system that analyzes blood using common hospital equipment and an artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-03/invention-predicts-burn-sepsis-15389928.html

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Maj. Gen. Andrew Gainey receives the colors of U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa during a change of command ceremony at Caserma Ederle, Italy, July 18, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-18/caserma-ederle-army-command-change-14525497.html

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Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. speaks about racial unrest over the killing of George Floyd in this screenshot from a video posted on Friday, June 5, 2020 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/air-force-s-top-black-general-offers-emotional-take-on-racial-unrest-over-floyd-killing-1.632658

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Sep 14, 2023 – CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — U.S. Army retiree Daniel Melton has a new mission — restoring hundreds of abandoned bicycles at the home of Eighth Army, 2nd Infantry Division and U.S. Forces Korea.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-09-14/abandoned-bikes-bicycles-camp-humphreys-11372606.html

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Nov 3, 2022 – A former Army Ranger who led a 2006 bank robbery in Washington state and then tried to hire someone to kill a prosecutor had over a decade shaved off his sentence this week, as a judge agreed that …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-11-03/soldier-bank-robber-sentenced-reduced-7910579.html

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Jul 1, 2024 – Brennon R. E. Washington, 25, an Air Force member assigned to Kadena Air Base, was accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor in December. Local police and prosecutors did not …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-01/okinawa-japan-sex-assault-marine-14352773.html

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