Military News

Sep 16, 2024 – Stars and Stripes reporter Rose L. Thayer won a top military journalism award for her story about an Air Force Academy family suffering at the crossroads of two military crises – sexual assault …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-09-16/military-journalism-award-stars-stripes-15195028.html

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Tyson Manker, a Marine who said he was discharged from the military after suffering from PTSD, calls on then-President Barack Obama to make the Veterans Fairness Act happen with executive action …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2022-02-17/navy-marines-bad-paper-discharges-lawsuit-settlement-5057639.html

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Aug 30, 2024 – The expansion announced Tuesday follows the initial 14 bases that started using the new system in April to help overcome long-standing problems with military moves.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-08-30/military-moves-duty-stations-bases-troops-15024433.html

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May 30, 2024 – A MARTAC T-38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vehicle operates in the Arabian Gulf, Oct. 26, 2023 – . According to a military official, the U.S. Navy has changed the focus of its Middle East drone boat …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-05-30/navy-drone-middle-east-14024734.html

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Ex-Army civilian Ephraim Garcia, 64, pleaded guilty to charges he offered kickbacks to an employee of Vectrus Systems Corp. to steer some $3 million in subcontract work to Kuwaiti firm Gulf Link …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-11-29/army-civilian-air-force-retiree-sentenced-kickback-kuwait-3793796.html

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Jun 24, 2024 – The U.S. Postal Service has shared information from thousands of Americans’ letters and packages with law enforcement every year for the past decade, conveying the names, addresses and other …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-06-24/law-enforcement-reading-americans-mail-14283521.html

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The Army and its contracting agencies have been talking about changing the color of the Strykers since 2004, according to Butts, “but nothing firm was planned out until now.”

https://www.stripes.com/migration/army-to-phase-in-tan-colored-stryker-vehicles-1.95928

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Feb 22, 2024 – A cyberattack Wednesday on Change Healthcare, one of America’s largest health care technology companies, has left U.S. military pharmacies worldwide unable to fill prescriptions, the Defense …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-02-22/cyberattack-military-pharmacy-prescriptions-13087693.html

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May 13, 2024 – The Biden administration said in a report to Congress on Friday it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel violated international law using U.S. weapons in its military campaign in Gaza, but …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-13/army-major-resigns-israel-gaza-13845726.html

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Mar 26, 2024 – A $6 billion settlement involving roughly 250,000 veterans will move forward in a lawsuit that argued faulty earplugs were sold to the military for use during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-03-26/military-troops-veterans-earplugs-3m-settlement-13433653.html

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A soldier walks through the barracks at Fort Benning, Ga., where Pvt. Felix Hall lived before his death in 1941. (Kevin D. Liles/for The Washington Post)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-08-01/fort-benning-lynched-soldier-felix-hall-2405576.html

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Littleton Mess Hall at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 9, 2023 – . Military leaders have an opportunity to improve troops’ health — now and for the rest of …

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2023-11-21/military-chow-hall-healthy-troops-12126933.html

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The Philippine military has years of experience fighting rebel and terrorist groups across its islands, including the 2017 Battle of Marawi against Islamist Abu Sayyaf fighters aligned with ISIS …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-06-26/hawaii-army-help-philippines-prepare-14305116.html

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U.S. Army soldiers with the New York National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division, wait for mass to begin at the Saint …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-03-17/ny-national-guard-st-patricks-13349515.html

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Pfc. Christopher Vandonsel, left, and Pfc. Michael Corrales, 303rd Military Intelligence Battalion, give their opinions on the food at the inaugural Taste Fest event at the Always Ready Warrior …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/warrior-restaurants-how-the-army-hopes-to-boost-dfac-usage-1.666269

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A Fort Wainwright soldier was killed Monday by a woman believed to be driving drunk after she crashed her vehicle into the security gate at the base and struck him, local law enforcement said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-24/alaska-fort-wainwright-drunken-driver-dead-soldier-14583060.html

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More than 150 service members of the 856th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard rally together with their families on Bushmaster Field in Phoenix, Ariz., for an send-off …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-01-21/856th-military-police-company-deploys-12748815.html

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VAT refund app for US military in Germany set for Jan. 1 full rollout. Editors’ Picks. Air Force Silver Star recipients among those honored for repulsing Iranian missile and drone attack .

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-02-22/air-force-housing-yokota-renovations-13079131.html

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A video screen grab shows President Joe Biden during a speech he gave in Philadelphia on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 – . Two U.S. Marines standing at attention during the speech are in the background.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-09-02/marines-biden-speech-politicizing-military-7193643.html

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Military personnel have already achieved places on the 2024 Team USA in events such as shooting. The Pentagon hopes to surpass the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing …

https://www.stripes.com/sports/2024-06-20/olympics-army-soldiers-air-force-airman-14244036.html

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