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Jul 8, 2024 – The National Guard Bureau has launched a second pilot program to offer soldiers in certain states child care during drill weekends after the first attempt launched nearly two years ago failed.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-08/national-guard-child-care-troops-drill-weekends-14424183.html

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Oct 3, 2023 – Army soldiers with the Wichita Recruiting Company hosted a recruitment booth at Hutchinson, Kan., on Sept. 9, 2023 – . The soldiers hosted the booth at the Kansas State Fairgrounds to interact with …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-10-03/army-recruiting-new-specialty-general-11581949.html

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Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous voice vote on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 – , to become the next commander of U.S. Southern Command, which will make her just …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-08-12/army-general-richardson-southcom-commander-senate-confirmed-2533797.html

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The Marines who went there in mid-August were practicing expeditionary advanced basing operations, Bowser, 36, of Kansas City, Mo., said by phone Tuesday. “We were rehearsing to operate from an …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-09-15/marine-f-35b-advanced-basing-australia-7350754.html

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Fellow Marines in Hawaii and North Carolina expressed their grief in online posts. Marines from Camp Hansen in Okinawa donated money via the funeral home website to have a tree planted in his memory.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/a-brother-that-could-never-be-replaced-loved-ones-mourn-marine-who-drowned-at-hawaii-base-1.637408

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Sgt. Tyler M. Rankin, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., disappeared Thursday off the coast of Hamada Beach in Shimane prefecture, according to a statement Tuesday from Marine Aircraft Group 12. He was a KC …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/searchers-recover-body-of-marine-missing-at-sea-since-thursday-off-southern-japan-1.636584

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Jul 14, 2024 – A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft conduct an aerial demonstration during the 2024 Wings Over Whiteman Air Show at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-07-14/wings-over-whiteman-air-show-14483348.html

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Jun 27, 2024 – BERKELEY, Missouri — Boeing is moving forward with its combat aircraft expansion project near its Berkeley complex, though recent comments from military officials have injected new uncertainty …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-06-27/boeing-advanced-combat-aircraft-missouri-14315381.html

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May 22, 2023 – An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., flies over Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Nov. 15, 2022 – .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-05-22/b2-bombers-air-force-grounding-10202713.html

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Though Johnson was paraded through New York City as a hero after the war, his disability pension was denied and he died of his war wounds in 1929. After his death, Johnson was awarded the Purple …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-13/fort-polk-johnson-confederate-army-10427731.html

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This year’s Resolute Dragon featured approximately 3,000 Marines and 5,700 Japanese troops, III MEF spokesman 1st Lt. Owen Hitchcock said at the ceremony.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-08-07/resolute-dragon-marine-littoral-japan-14774688.html

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https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-24/lewis-mcchord-soldiers-killing-pregnant-wife-army-14287361.html

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The Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron sergeant major said his family left Panama for New York when he was 4 years old looking for better opportunities. “Eventually, I joined the Marine …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-10-16/marine-corps-hispanic-heritage-japan-11720048.html

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Family members greet the Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine USS Vermont as it arrives July 27, 2023 – , at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-12-05/pearl-harbor-wwii-submarines-aircraft-carrier-12267971.html

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The Chesapeake, a 1000-ton lift capacity derrick barge; the Ferrell, a 200-ton lift capacity revolving crane barge; and the Oyster Bay, a 150-ton lift capacity crane barge arrive in Baltimore …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-03-31/navy-barges-baltimore-bridge-collapse-13461242.html

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The USS Nimitz has been the template of American sea power for nearly a half-century. Commissioned four days after the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War in 1975, the 100,000-ton supercarrier …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-12-31/navy-supercarrier-strategy-nimitz-12490948.html

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A crane used to drive test piles floats in Oura Bay at the site of a future U.S. Marine Corps runway at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, July 9, 2024 – .

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-07-09/oura-bay-seawall-marine-corps-airfield-okinawa-14429070.html

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As vice president, Biden twice addressed a graduating class of cadets at the academy in upstate New York, but this will be his first time to do so as president. Donald Trump was the last president …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-04-23/west-point-biden-commencement-cadets-army-13634051.html

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An upstate New York native who served three years in the U.S. Army before graduating from the University of Arizona, she previously worked at The Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times. Over …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/thousands-in-military-community-poisoned-by-carbon-monoxide-over-the-course-of-a-decade-study-finds-1.620155

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Aug 16, 2024 – The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, is investigating how the base clinic administered ineffective doses of MMR and chicken pox vaccines between May and June 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-08-16/18th-wing-kadena-mmr-chicken-pox-vaccine-kadena-14880057.html

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