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Former Col. Todd Shane Tomko pleaded guilty the same day to three counts of misdemeanor assault and battery at the Virginia Beach Circuit Court in Virginia. Tomko, 55, had been charged with …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/former-marine-colonel-sentenced-to-prison-for-abusing-children-1.536917

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Sep 12, 2024 – As part of the pact the U.S. has pledged to arm Australia with at least three Virginia-class submarines starting in 2032, before Australia can build as many as five new nuclear-powered AUKUS vessels.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-12/australia-sas-us-submarines-aukus-15149596.html

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Jul 12, 2024 – Dozens of family members gathered Friday, July 12, 2024 – , at Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., to welcome home four Virginia Beach-based fighter jet squadrons.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-07-12/eisenhower-navy-air-wing-houthis-red-sea-14465152.html

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Jan 15, 2024 – The Ragin’ Bulls and the Blacklions are back in Virginia. … Carrier Air Wing 8 reunited with loved ones during an emotional return home to Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., on …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-01-15/carrier-air-wing-8-returns-home-12683638.html

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Feb 20, 2024 – Caitlyn Burchett. The Virginian-Pilot • February 20, 2024 – . The Navy released recently a five-year review of an environmental restoration program at Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story, finding …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-02-20/contamination-fort-story-navy-13060657.html

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A Marine corporal put his water training to use to save a drowning teen in upstate New York last summer. His unit commander recently pinned the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal on Cpl …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-01-29/marine-lifesaver-medal-drowning-teen-12837448.html

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Yuko Cairns, owner and operator of the New York New York Bar and Grill near the base, said people started showing up around 6:30 p.m., 20 minutes after Jarrett’s announcement.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2021-06-22/finally-back-to-normal-bars-nightclubs-no-longer-off-limits-to-yokosuka-sailors-1767128.html

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As a student at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Emanuel initially studied to be an early childhood educator before pursuing politics, he told Stars and Stripes. Later, as mayor of Chicago, he …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-09-04/rahm-emanuel-yokosuka-pre-k-ambassador-japan-15065148.html

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The trip will be Trump’s first meeting with GOP lawmakers since a jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money case, making Trump the …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-12/trump-gop-lawmakers-capitol-hill-14160201.html

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He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon. One of his earliest journalistic inspirations came from reading Stars and Stripes as a …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-06-14/new-commander-marine-bases-pacific-14185045.html

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The latest deaths have prompted a U.S. review of its support to those operations, unnamed officials told the New York Times on Monday. The two American deaths this week are the first in the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2020-03-10/Family-men-adoring-husbands-and-fathers-Two-NC-based-Marines-killed-in-Iraq-1466613.html

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Jun 30, 2024 – In 2014, EUCOM limited uniform wearing off base to commuting, a restriction that the command began to relax in 2022.. The military sets force protection levels at either Normal, Alpha, Bravo …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-06-30/us-military-bases-germany-terrorism-threat-14342506.html

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Sep 25, 2024 – The combat training center is supported by U.S. Army Pacific and the 196th Infantry Brigade, both headquartered at Fort Shafter. Military personnel from Malaysia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Thailand …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-24/hawaii-army-exercise-10-nations-15293725.html

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Aug 26, 2024 – CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marine Corps has deployed MQ-9A Reaper drones to Kadena Air Base to support surveillance training in southern Japan, according to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-08-26/marine-reaper-drones-okinawa-14978832.html

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Sep 11, 2024 – He has worked as a music reporter and editor for publications in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Oregon. One of his earliest journalistic inspirations came from reading Stars and Stripes as a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-09-11/marines-futenma-relocation-okinawa-15138482.html

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Amy and Jonathan Winters, the sister and brother-in-law of Chief Petty Officer Charles Findley, attend a ceremony naming a new barracks building after the USS John S. McCain at Naval Station Great …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/navy-names-new-barracks-at-naval-station-great-lakes-after-uss-john-s-mccain-1.650194

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Jan 19, 2023 – Latifu was from the Bronx in New York City. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment, 1st Aviation Brigade at Fort Rucker’s AIT program, which is part of its Army Aviation …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-01-19/fort-rucker-soldiers-murder-army-8820236.html

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The Army’s first new major combat vehicle in two decades will be known as the M10 Booker Combat Vehicle, honoring fallen soldiers killed in the Iraq War and World War II, service officials said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-10/army-combat-vehicle-m10-booker-10387122.html

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Apr 15, 2024 – Command Senior Chief Petty Officer Brianna Ridlon, left, reenlists in the Navy standing atop one of the USS Ronald Reagan’s anchors at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, April 1, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-04-14/navy-sailor-reenlists-on-anchor-13552420.html

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Apr 25, 2024 – Airman Tyler Shipley, a cyber systems operations specialist with the 121st Air Refueling Wing, works on a computer at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio, on April 7, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-04-25/air-force-warrant-officers-cyber-it-13660600.html

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