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Jul 26, 2023A boy and a woman apparently drowned Tuesday following an incident near a beach at Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan. “One male child passed away after being transported by Japanese …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-07-26/misawa-base-beach-drowning-deaths-10858572.html

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Feb 9, 2024MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — Japanese police have referred two unnamed Marines from this base south of Hiroshima to local prosecutors in connection with separate incidents last year.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-02-08/marines-police-iwakuni-japan-12945739.html

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Nov 15, 2024The unidentified businesses were fined between $2,100 and $6,500, the investigator said. Humphreys, in Pyeongtaek city, roughly 40 miles south of Seoul, is the largest U.S. military base overseas.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-11-15/humphreys-south-korea-immigration-army-cid-15855166.html

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Aug 29, 2024She was born in Nagoya, Japan, and lived in Australia and Illinois growing up. She holds a journalism degree from Boston University and previously worked for the Christian Science Monitor’s …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-08-29/lawson-convenience-store-japan-english-15007581.html

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Nov 14, 2024Redshirt freshman QB and first-year starter Darian Mensah leads the passing game, throwing to Bauman as well as a receiver corps led by Southern California transfer Mario Williams and Yulkeith Brown.

https://www.stripes.com/sports/2024-11-14/navy-football-tulane-spot-aac-title-game-15846715.html

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Mar 13, 2024(Grady Fontana/U.S. Navy) The ship on Feb. 15 delivered U.S. Marine Corps vehicles and equipment to South Korean marines at Chinhae Naval Base, according to photos from the 3rd Marine Logistics Group.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-03-13/navy-deck-landing-south-korea-13302908.html

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Personnel stage M1 Abrams tanks at the Powidz APS-2 Worksite on June 27, 2024, in Powidz, Poland. The Powidz site received the standard makeup of a U.S. Army armored brigade combat team.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-06-28/american-army-tanks-weapons-poland-14325181.html

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“It’s very humbling for me to have that chance and ability to help people,” she said. “I’ve had a lot of people calling with requests and offers, but I found this …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/former-airman-who-posed-for-playboy-bares-it-all-to-help-wounded-troops-1.65012

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Douglas DeMaio, who worked for the U.S. Army in Bamberg, Germany, as a civilian for about three years, and Greg Wallace, who was stationed in Bamberg from 1985 to 1992 with the 1st Armored …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/fond-memories-and-some-tears-as-us-army-leaves-bamberg-1.302834

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The funeral ceremony for Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez at Life Gate Church in Logansport, Ind., is shown in this video capture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-09-14/cpl-humberto-sanchez-funeral-marine-killed-kabul-blast-2886968.html

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Scheller was quickly removed as the commander of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune. A Marine Corps spokesman, Maj. Jim Stenger, said at the time that while it was an …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-10-12/afghanistan-video-marine-scheller-plead-guilty-court-martial-charges-3223473.html

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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Victims of convicted sex offender Lt. Cmdr. Anthony L. Velasquez say they are furious at the Navy for letting the disgraced doctor off with what they perceive as a …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2010-06-04/Angry-victims-say-Navy-misled-them-over-doctor%E2%80%99s-sex-crime-sentence-2021287.html

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Born in California, he’s a 1988 graduate of Humboldt State University and has been a journalist for 40 years. related stories Okinawa naval hospital removes infant care provider after online …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-09-14/aviano-clinic-pay-patient-changes-11361521.html

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In 2006, Congress changed the maximum age for all enlisted military recruits from 35 to 42. From 2007 to 2016, the Army’s maximum enlistment age was set at 42 to sustain demand for the surge in …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-10-27/air-force-raises-recruits-maximum-age-11847565.html

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“What you couldn’t have known back then is I had my beautiful wife and a 10-month-old daughter who was waiting at home for me and depending on you to keep me alive,” Danes said.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/for-two-wounded-marines-a-chance-to-put-the-puzzle-together-1.migrated

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Jul 18, 2024Pfc. Myron Dewberry, a Marine stationed at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, signs up to take University of Maryland Global Campus classes, July 12, 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-07-17/marines-college-classes-fuji-japan-14521034.html

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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – A Marine is facing 3 ½ years with hard labor in a Japanese prison for a night of drinking in American Village that ended in a taxi destroyed and the driver injured and …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/marine-faces-3-years-in-prison-with-hard-labor-for-drunken-assault-on-okinawa-taxi-driver-1.660098

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9th Regiment Marines advance in 1967 toward North Vietnamese hilltop positions under cover of Marine air strikes. The action took place during a search-and-clear patrol just west of Phu Bai in the …

https://www.stripes.com/special-reports/heavily-outnumbered-marines-beat-the-odds-1.494266

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When the famed Blue Angels recently announced officer selections for the 2017 air show season, Marine Capt. Kyle Maschner, 33, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was named the team’s C-130 demonstration pilot.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/blue-angels-call-on-okinawa-marine-to-pilot-fat-albert-1.421130

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Private First Class Dalton Beals, 19, died during a basic training exercise at Parris Island in South Carolina on June 4, 2021. Beals was just two weeks away from officially becoming a Marine.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-06-08/he-was-an-amazing-soul-marine-recruit-s-parris-island-death-devastates-nj-hometown-1660525.html

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