Karmah, a town with 70,000 residents about 30 miles west of Baghdad, was raided more than a week ago by U.S. Marines and Iraqi Security Forces looking to rid the city of insurgents and weapons caches.
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Nov 23, 2022Stars and Stripes is proud to present the eighth edition of the Military Spouse Entrepreneur Guide (MSEG). Stripes has once again partnered with the Association of Military Spouse Entrepreneurs …
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(Tribune News Service) A Nellis Air Force Base officer allegedly groomed a girl for sex, was accused of raping her and committed lewd acts in front of her, police said.
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Apr 28, 2023The U.S. Army left the small base in 1998, but the remaining contamination reaches as deep as 650 feet below ground, then-Mayor Klaus Weichel told council members in late 2021.
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The area could be a park, for example, that could be converted to emergency use by the Army or Japanese authorities if ever needed. “I accept partial return and joint use of Sagami Depot to …
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Sep 15, 2023Adm. John Aquilino, left, head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and the Philippines’ military chief, Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner, recently visited three sites being developed to support U.S. forces in the …
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Mohammad, left, a Special Immigrant Visa applicant, takes a selfie on the flight that Task Force Argo, a private group set up and led by military veterans, chartered to evacuate him and other …
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May 14, 2024U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel is expected to visit Japan Ground-Self Defense Force bases and meet city officials on both islands, according to a May 1 report by public broadcaster NHK that …
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Oct 16, 2023The Massachusetts native and UMass Amherst alumnus previously covered Okinawa, Sasebo Naval Base and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, for the news organization. His work has also appeared …
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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa Marine Maj. William Easter was preparing for a run on the Okinawa seawall near American Village on the afternoon of Dec. 8 when he heard cries for help coming from the shore.
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The Massachusetts native and UMass Amherst alumnus previously covered Okinawa, Sasebo Naval Base and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, for the news organization. His work has also appeared …
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Feb 27, 2024A report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2021 and released quietly with little notice in December 2023 did not put to rest a fear that the military is full of violent extremists.
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Nov 28, 2022The Navy in 2018 was first to permit women to wear ponytails in uniform. The Air Force followed suit in 2021 by allowing female airmen to wear their ponytails below their uniform collars. The Army …
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Gina Ortiz Jones, undersecretary of the Air Force, meets with airmen on Jan. 9, 2023, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Jones is stepping down from the job, the Air Force announced Feb. 13.
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The Marine Corps staff sergeant who mounted an assault to take a crucial tower in the bloody 1968 Battle of Hue in Vietnam died Oct. 1 in Wasilla, Alaska.
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Seth Robson is a Tokyo-based reporter who has been with Stars and Stripes since 2003. He has been stationed in Japan, South Korea and Germany, with frequent assignments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti …
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The strategic harbor’s importance has grown amid Chinese efforts to build military facilities on artificial islands and claim sovereignty over territory to the west in the South China Sea.
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The Hatra Brass Recovery Co. will employ 100 Iraqis. Half of the profits will go toward community projects. The other half will pay for the “Sheik Force,” a tribe of 75 men hired by …
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany Airmen and Space Force personnel with razor bumps no longer need to apply for a shaving waiver every year after Air Force officials extended the exemption from regular …
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