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Rose L. Thayer is based in Austin, Texas, and she has been covering the western region of the continental U.S. for Stars and Stripes since 2018.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/texas-airman-is-arrested-charged-with-uploading-child-pornography-1.648886

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A former U.S. Army officer will serve prison time after he was convicted of groping a 16-year-old — and then an 18-year-old — on separate flights to Seattle last year, federal prosecutors said.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-19/army-officer-gropes-assaults-passengers-14536905.html

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Jul 24, 2024Marines with the United States Marine Corps Color Guard, Marine Barracks Washington, march onto the parade deck during a Sunset Parade at the Marine Corps War Memorial, Arlington, Va., July 23, 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2024-07-24/marines-sunset-parade-iwo-jima-memorial-14581255.html

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Nov 6, 2024AUSTIN, Texas — An Army veteran who was killed last month by police after a high-speed car chase had 25 gunshot wounds in his head, arms, legs and torso, according to an autopsy report. Jeremy …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-11-06/army-veteran-texas-police-shooting-death-15761270.html

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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers will push to save five ships that the Navy is slating for retirement, rejecting the service branch’s proposal to decommission 24 ships in its fiscal 2023 budget.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2022-06-07/navy-ships-retirement-plan-congress-6262625.html

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Richard Pittman, a Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War, has died at age 71. Partial blindness disqualified him from regular service, but he was able to join the Marine Corps Reserves.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/vietnam-war-medal-of-honor-recipient-richard-pittman-dies-at-age-71-1.434654

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Jan 10, 2024Two B-1B Lancers assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, fly over the 134th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 2, 2023. (Hannah Malone/U.S. Air Force)

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-01-10/b1-lancers-bombers-grounded-ellsworth-air-force-12627092.html

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Aug 9, 2024A Fort Campbell soldier charged in January 2024 with creating and owning sexually explicit images of children and other soldiers without their consent was able to harm another child two months …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-08-09/fort-campbell-soldier-child-sex-charges-14807225.html

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Apr 3, 2023In a report headlined “See Something, Say Something,” Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash., said Saturday it received calls about a large balloon-like aircraft floating over …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-04-03/april-fools-jokes-military-humor-9687742.html

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Apr 3, 2024WASHINGTON — Service members and their families at 14 military installations can now move to their next duty stations using a new streamlined system for shipping their belongings designed to …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-04-03/military-families-troops-moves-new-system-13481071.html

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In a case of stolen valor described by a U.S. District Court judge as “nefarious,” the former captain in the Idaho National Guard was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash., last …

https://www.stripes.com/migration/soldier-whose-stolen-valor-scam-began-in-iraq-will-end-in-prison-1.472080

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WASHINGTON — Gen. James McConville said he believes the Army will have it first female chief of staff in less than 20 years, it’s just a matter of making certain that the service retains …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/the-first-female-army-chief-will-be-appointed-in-the-next-20-years-mcconville-says-1.665494

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Jun 21, 2023Army Pfc. Rondale Henricks, 21, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter Friday, June 16, 2023, and was sentenced to 34 months in prison for the 2020 deaths of two women in Washington state, where …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-21/soldier-lewis-mcchord-illegal-racing-women-killed-10510118.html

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Two KC-135R Stratotankers sit at Grissom Air Reserve Base, in Bunker Hill, Indiana. On June 3 when the base opened its new $9.3-million aerial port.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-06-05/grissom-new-aerial-port-facility-6246513.html

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Army Col. Charles Bergman, second from right, was one of the first on the scene June 3, 2022, at a catastrophic train derailment near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, that killed five people and …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-06-09/german-train-crash-army-rescue-6284388.html

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May 16, 2023Joint Base Lewis-McChord is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Tacoma and 35 miles southwest of Seattle. The base is home to several Army and Air Force units and the Yakima Training Center — a …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-05-16/apache-helicopter-crash-washington-soldiers-10139425.html

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Sep 25, 2024Air Force. Woman, 79, fell while hiking. A JBLM airman carried her for hours on his back. Ursula Bannister on airman Troy May’s back after she broke her leg hiking near Ashford, Wash. Several …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-09-25/hiker-rescued-jblm-airman-15300287.html

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An Army Ranger assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., was arraigned Friday on charges of murder and kidnapping for beating to death a female security guard at a Tacoma office building …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-07-23/army-ranger-murder-tacoma-lewis-mcchord-security-guard-2260867.html

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“Super Garuda Shield 2023 builds on last year’s tremendous success,” Gen. Charles Flynn, U.S. Army Pacific’s commander, said in a statement posted Tuesday by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-09-01/super-garuda-shield-indonesia-china-11232163.html

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The unit, led by Capt. Miata Schenaker, is evidence that “the Army can fight on land, air and sea,” U.S. Army Japan commander Maj. Gen. David Womack told dignitaries gathered at the dock.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-02-08/army-watercraft-company-reactivates-japan-12936800.html

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