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A new housing tower at Camp Walker, South Korea, includes 60 three-bedroom, 26 four-bedroom and four five-bedroom apartments. (Rachel Napolitan/U.S. Army)

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-03-06/army-new-housing-towers-korea-13222327.html

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Tetrault, 28, who works on F-35B Lightning II fighters at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, was one of 158 Marines from Japan and South Korea in the Far East Marksmanship Competition, a 10 …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2022-12-15/marine-corps-far-east-marksmanship-8428100.html

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More than 1,000 participants showed for the South Korea-U.S. Friendship Combat Taekwondo Exhibition on Friday, including 403 South Korean service members and 400 Americans, plus other participants …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-07-03/taekwando-camp-casey-south-korea-8th-army-14372502.html

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Pvt. 1st Class Noah Samuel-Siegel died Nov. 8, 2021, in his barracks room at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, the Army said Wednesay, March 2, 2022. (Margaret and Yoni Samuel-Siegel)

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-03-07/us-army-military-police-soldier-found-dead-camp-humphreys-south-korea-5255225.html

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The U.S. government needs to make clear that Americans will fight and risk nuclear war on Taiwan’s behalf, a former Marine and consultant on Asian defense matters said Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-10-12/taiwan-china-invasion-nuclear-war-united-states-3214248.html

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The commander of U.S. Forces Korea, Army Gen. Paul LaCamera, speaks at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 5, 2021. (Kris Bonet/U.S. Forces Korea) This story has been corrected .

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-04-18/military-sexual-assault-us-forces-korea-9837526.html

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Aug 26, 2024OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Local police arrested an airman stationed here on suspicion of drunken driving and crashing into six vehicles at his apartment complex parking lot over the weekend.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-08-26/osan-airman-arrest-south-korea-14979435.html

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Jul 18, 2024Four thousand troops, including 1,400 Marines are involved in the drills, 1st Lt. Colton Martin, a spokesman for the rotational force, told Stars and Stripes by email Wednesday.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-18/marines-littoral-combat-australia-14524778.html

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Military service is mandatory only for South Korean men, so just 10,000 of the 630,000 active-duty servicemembers are women, according to South Korean military officials. Of those, about 1,100 are …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/1st-south-korean-female-troops-pass-us-army-s-eib-training-1.311361

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Oct 3, 2024Sweat enlisted in September 2003 and served in the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions before becoming a senior career counselor in Japan, according to his official biography.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-10-03/army-combat-veteran-dies-japan-15388699.html

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Jul 15, 2024The troops arrived on the island by air while their vehicles and gear came by sea as part of Operation Pathways, he said. “It allowed us to stretch our logistics,” he said of the training.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-15/army-borneo-south-china-sea-14490683.html

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Sep 15, 2024As the Taliban begin enforcing new draconian laws, Afghan women say that whatever hopes they once harbored for an easing of the severe restrictions on them have largely vanished.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-09-15/taliban-strict-laws-afghan-women-15181730.html

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Nov 15, 2022Samuel Folsom, a Marine Corps fighter pilot who battled Japanese Zeros over Guadalcanal in World War II, died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the New York Times. He was 102.

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-11-15/samuel-folsom-guadalcanal-marines-obituary-8058224.html

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For the past three years the Navy has been operating heavily along the coast and on the inland waterways of South Vietnam, but less than a year ago the Brown Water Navy really came into its own.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/the-brown-water-navy-1.277669

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday called on Army leaders to investigate a “blood curdling” news report that found nearly 2,000 military firearms went missing during …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-06-15/Senator-demands-Army-accountability-after-report-finds-nearly-2000-missing-military-weapons-1699474.html

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Aug 30, 2024Graduating sailors during a Navy Recruit Training Command’s review at Great Lakes, Ill., on Jul. 25, 2024. More than 40,000 recruits train annually at the service’s only boot camp.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-08-30/navy-recruiting-sailors-enlistment-requirements-15022812.html

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One of five 3-D printers used by the Army’s Rapid Fabrication via Additive Manufacturing on the Battlefield facility at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/army-field-tests-3d-printing-capabilities-in-south-korea-1.554269

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CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — The United States took possession of a state-of-the-art, 68-bed hospital at the new U.S. military headquarters in South Korea during a ceremony Wednesday.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/215-million-military-hospital-in-s-korea-one-step-closer-to-november-opening-1.591653

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Oct 24, 2024A warehouse fire on a U.S. Army supply base that began Thursday evening and drew mutual aid from city firefighters in Busan, South Korea, was extinguished 13 hours later, according to the Army and …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-10-24/army-fire-busan-south-korea-15617367.html

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Mar 30, 2023Meyer, of South Bend, Ind., said he and the other sailors were asked a lot of questions about their jobs, hometowns and more casual topics such as food or entertainment; and sailors asked similar …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-03-29/yokosuka-japanese-language-navy-cafe-9647422.html

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