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Mar 7, 2023The pantry is open from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, Jackson said. Patrons are allowed 10 items per visit, although the pantry has two-for-one specials and other …

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Eve-Lynn Gardner is a freelance writer and spouse of an Army officer. Army Subscribe to Stars and Stripes Just 99c a week! Subscribe. stars and stripes videos. around the web. stripes top news.

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Oct 16, 2024She has worked for a variety of publications in Louisiana, Illinois and Washington, D.C. Subscribe to Stars and Stripes Just 99c a week! Subscribe. stars and stripes videos. around the web …

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Mar 11, 2024″The rifle range in 1907, it’s not bad or good. It’s what we had when we had … a 1903 Springfield [rifle], which was an 1890s technology,” Jones said. “Now we have an M-16A4. The test …

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A 19-year-old Marine has been charged in the rollover accident near Camp Lejeune that left two Marines dead and 17 others injured when the 7-ton tactical vehicle they were riding in rolled over on …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-01-19/marines-killed-crash-camp-lejeune-4350158.html

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A U.S. airman in England was severely injured on duty Thursday when he was hit head-on by a maintenance van on the flight line at RAF Lakenheath, Air Force officials confirmed Wednesday, following …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-01-10/airman-hospitalized-flightline-accident-lakenheath-12623862.html

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Nov 12, 2024WASHINGTON — Two Navy destroyers near the Red Sea fended off more than a dozen drones and missiles launched at the ships Monday by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Pentagon officials said.

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Nov 14, 2024The military had an active-duty suicide rate of about 28 suicide deaths for every 100,000 service members in 2023, a 12% increase from 2022, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday, Nov …

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Oct 28, 2024The Army has worked with about two dozen companies including Anduril Industries Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and Elon Musk’s SpaceX as part of “transforming in contact.”

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-28/army-speeds-up-weapons-development-15653873.html

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Jan 20, 2023The grandson also had been a lieutenant in a junior militia group that escorted the Marquis de Lafayette on his visit to Richmond in 1824, when Poe was 15. In 1829, Poe was released from his five …

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Jun 1, 2023Roughly 35,500 U.S. and South Korean troops, family members and Defense Department civilians have daily access to Camp Humphreys, about 40 miles south of Seoul.

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Navy investigators determined the Connecticut struck an “uncharted seamount,” or undersea mountain, while it was operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a U …

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Jan 3, 2024Sullivan was a Boston native who grew up in nearby Quincy, Mass. He was commissioned into the Army in 1959 after graduating from Norwich and was sent to Vietnam for the first time in 1962.

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Stars and Stripes • October 27, 2021. Grooming standards vary across the ranks and branches of the South Korean military. In the navy, for example, male officers may choose between a crew cut …

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A 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division soldier fires the Squad Designated Marksman Rifle in January 2019 at Fort Bliss, Texas. Between 5,000 and 6,000 of the new rifles will be …

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Oct 9, 2024Fleet and Family Support Center 727-3232, 956-82-3232. FFSC manages the Counseling & Advocacy Program (CAP) with non-medical counseling for all personnel on base including individuals, couples and families. FFSC also has new or expectant parent support classes and non-clinical therapy life-skills classes in topics like anger and stress management.

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Originally from Knoxville, Tenn., he holds a journalism degree from the University of North Florida. He previously covered crime and the military in Key West, Fla., and business in Jacksonville, Fla.

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May 15, 2024The F-16 Viper Demonstration Team aircraft sits on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., May 9, 2024. The new paint scheme pays homage to the YF-16 prototype that first flew at …

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Photos posted to social media on Sept. 6, 2024, appeared to show soldiers sleeping outside the U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach vehicle registration office in Germany.

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On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Williams for a fourth star, a prerequisite for taking the job. A change of command at U.S. Army Europe and Africa headquarters in Wiesbaden is slated for Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-06-24/williams-army-europe-commander-6443668.html

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