Pacific Air Forces is recruiting volunteers for Iron Athena, fledgling grassroots initiative focused on addressing readiness and retention barriers faced by female airmen and their families, inspired by similar “Athena” organizations throughout the Air Force. Cari Piha, 535th Airlift Squadron instructor pilot, conducts an all-female C-17 Globemaster flight training mission around the Hawaiian Islands in honor of Women’s History Month in March 2021.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-11-13/air-force-women-retention-15842005.html
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Caitlin Doornbos covers the Pentagon for Stars and Stripes after covering the Navy’s 7th Fleet as Stripes’ Indo-Pacific correspondent at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. Previously, she worked as crime reporter in Lawrence, Kan.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-09-07/bagram-air-base-china-taliban-afghanistan-american-withdrawal-2806178.html
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And military-friendly area like Altus AFB not only offers plenty to do, many times it offers military discounts to do it. You can check your local MWR for all the local attractions and entertainment, on and off base. And military-friendly area like Altus AFB not only offers plenty to do, many times it offers military discounts to do it.
https://www.military.com/base-guide/altus-air-force-base/recreation
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PFAS foam on the shoreline of Van Etten Lake near Wurtsmith Air Force Base on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-09-16/willow-grove-naval-air-base-redevelopment-pfas-2914878.html
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Chaves, who joined the Army 2015, was assigned to the Fort Bliss, Texas-based 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and was as supporting Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Spartan Shield in the fight against Islamic State. Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/dod-identifies-soldier-killed-in-iraq-1.503696
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rainbow is seen behind Naval Hospital Bremerton at Bremerton, Wash. She has reported for variety of publications in Montana, Nevada and Louisiana, and served as editor of newspapers in Louisiana, Oregon and Washington.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-12-01/navy-buildings-billions-maintenance-housing-12224739.html
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All militants were killed and no American and Somali soldiers were seriously injured, the Army said. Soldiers with the New Jersey Army National Guard set up an 81 mm mortar in support of patrol at Baledogle Military Airfield, Somalia, June 24, 2019.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-12-28/new-jersey-national-guard-somalia-8565947.html
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Graduating sailors during Navy Recruit Training Command’s review at Great Lakes, Ill. am very proud to announce the Navy has had its best stretch of recruiting results since 2020,” Rear Adm.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-08-30/navy-recruiting-sailors-enlistment-requirements-15022812.html
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The official party salutes during decommissioning ceremony for the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Chicago (SSN 721), in Keyport, Wash. Chicago was commissioned in 1986 and is the fourth vessel to be named after Chicago, Ill.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-07-25/navy-submarine-chicago-decommissioned-10852419.html
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Justin Sweat, of the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, is remembered with service at Camp Zama Chapel just outside Tokyo, Sept. He has been stationed in Japan, South Korea and Germany, with frequent assignments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Australia and the Philippines.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-03/army-combat-veteran-dies-japan-15388699.html
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James McConville introduces his family at hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, May 2, 2019, as members of the Senate Armed Services Committee considered the general’s nomination to become the Army’s next chief of staff. Looking on in the background are from left, McConville’s wife, Maria, an Army veteran; his son Michael, an Army captain; his son-in-law Ryan Nanzer, an Army staff sergeant; his daughter Jessica Nanzer, an Army captain; and his son Ryan, also an Army captain.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/army-family-provided-backup-at-chief-of-staff-nominee-mcconville-s-confirmation-hearing-1.579540
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William Hogan on June 6, 2024, at an observation point overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, where his father, Lt. The elder Hogan commanded tank battalion, which is the subject of book written by his son that was published in November.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-06-13/task-force-hogan-remembered-14167534.html
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Imagery shared on social media by China’s Eastern Theater Command, labeled “diagram of the Joint Sword 2024A exercise area,” shows Taiwan encircled by two-day series of drills that began May 23, 2024. Navy and other services from Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-05-22/china-military-exercise-encircles-taiwan-13945546.html
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In the early pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, over 10,000 American, British, and Canadian paratroopers took off from airfields in southern England. However, on the morning of Deployment Day (D-Day), they had unusual help from team of highly trained special forces.
https://europe.stripes.com/military-life/the-daring-dogs-of-d-day.html
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Travis King, who crossed into North Korea last year, is expected to plead guilty to several charges the military has brought against him. King was deployed to South Korea but expected to return home in July 2023, when he ran into North Korea during tour of town on the border. Travis King, who crossed into North Korea last year, is expected to plead guilty to several charges the military has brought against him.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-army-soldier-fled-north-222223044.html
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Renaming nine Army bases linked to the Confederacy could cost more than $21 million, according to report to Congress by commission appointed to study the issue. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia, Fort Rucker in Alabama, and Fort Hood in Texas.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-08-09/army-bases-confederate-generals-renaming-6930458.html
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When my family was stationed in upstate New York, we had to travel more than three hours each way for my son to see developmental pediatrician. He was diagnosed with autism, and there were no specialty care doctors near where we lived. We made the trip to Albany from Watertown regularly, costing us family time and money.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/22/harris-dnc-speech-military-families/74836165007/
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Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines. Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets, one of which is seen here, escort pair of Tu-95 Bear bombers in international airspace north of Norway on Feb.
https://www.stripes.com/news/marine-bomb-expert-shaken-but-not-deterred-by-ied-1.43618
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Clemson University Army ROTC cadets after 9/11 remembrance ceremony in the university’s Military Heritage Plaza, Sept. Now major general, Gamble was demoted and removed from his deputy chief of staff for logistics job following toxic command climate probe, the service said Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-04-06/army-general-logistics-demoted-toxic-command-investigation-gamble-5601373.html
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An Air Force Reserve pilot based at Kessler Air Force Base, Miss. Wreckage of airplane in rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-08-18/air-force-pilot-capitol-riot-charges-11086712.html
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