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Jan 17, 2024At about noon on Aug. 1, 2022, Spearman skipped lunch and was working alone when he went overboard. After fighting for at least 10 minutes to stay afloat in the cold water, he sank below the …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-01-17/investigation-sailor-fainted-overboard-death-12633483.html

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May 5, 2023Stefan Zappey, a former teacher at Patch Elementary School in Stuttgart, Germany, shown in a photo from a 2007 school statement. He was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing four former …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-05-05/teacher-military-sex-abuse-10020030.html

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The playground at the Jirisan Tower residential complex on Osan Air Base, South Korea, was closed on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, after a small amount of lead-based paint was discovered on the slide.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-09-12/lead-paint-osan-korea-playground-7302077.html

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Sep 30, 2024A U.S. Army paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade conducts a simulated attack with Italian troops during training at Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 13, 2024.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-09-30/nato-trump-harris-military-europe-15354038.html

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Marine Raider Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jones, left, is presented the Navy Cross by Gen. David Berger, the Marine Commandant, on Thursday, Aug. 26 at Camp Lejeune.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2021-08-26/marine-raider-navy-cross-jones-isis-iraq-2680739.html

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SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) — Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever bribery and corruption scandal, will …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-11-20/fat-leonard-appeal-prison-sentence-navy-bribery-case-15917292.html

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The Roosevelt deployed in January from San Diego for an Indo-Pacific region deployment. The aircraft carrier and its strike group were redirected in late June to the Middle East to relieve the USS …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-08-26/aircraft-carrier-middle-east-israel-iran-theodore-roosevelt-14981819.html

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The Air Force is spending $1.75 million to gauge the effects of future sea-level rise at Wake Island Airfield, located on a remote Pacific atoll that is a key asset in America’s missile defense …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/air-force-wants-to-know-if-key-pacific-airfield-could-disappear-under-rising-sea-1.661775

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St. Agid Bergheim Church in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, was restored and converted into a bat sanctuary. A ceremony Sept. 27, 2021, marked the completion of the project. (Nathaniel Gayle/U.S …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2021-10-06/army-church-bats-hohenfels-base-3147496.html

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The death of Marine Cpl. Jordan L. Spears has been reclassified to indicate he died in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/marine-corporal-is-reclassified-as-1st-to-die-in-operation-inherent-resolve-1.310939

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Climate change’s biggest impact on national defense is the way it “undermines and destabilizes societies,” said Sharon Burke, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for operational energy.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-09-09/climate-change-global-warming-defense-military-2833744.html

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Biondi assumed command of the Connecticut-based San Juan on April 27, 2012. He has been administratively reassigned to the staff of Commander, Submarine Group 2.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/attack-submarine-commander-relieved-of-duty-1.287088

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A U.S. Air Force pararescue team flew 11 hours and jumped into the Pacific Ocean to aid injured Chinese sailors in distress off the coast of Mexico after their fishing vessel caught fire and sank …

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/air-force-pararescue-team-aids-chinese-sailors-in-pacific-1.281470

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James Benally and Kristen June, stepfather and mother of murder victim Spc. Clint Lamebear, leave the trial of their son’s killers in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Tuesday.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/2nd-life-sentence-in-killing-of-soldier-1.7617

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Sep 12, 2024The USS Manchester returned to its homeport in Naval Base San Diego on Wednesday. Sailors greet family and loved ones after an 18-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-09-12/navy-uss-manchester-return-deployment-15154118.html

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He also disputed the facts of a 2001 lewd conduct conviction against him in California while he was assigned to the Defense Finance Accounting Service at San Bernardino.

https://www.stripes.com/migration/airman-gets-six-years-for-assaults-in-italy-s-korea-1.60177

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California Innocence Project attorneys said Harris Sr.’s jealousy over Roberts’ involvement with his estranged wife was the motive behind the killing. … 2021 the San Bernardino County Sun (San …

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2021-09-15/california-county-pays-wrongly-convicted-marine-corps-veteran-11-million-2902096.html

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Then-Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, who is not related to Capt. Lacie Hester, was awarded the medal for her actions during a March 2005 enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-11-15/lakenheath-silver-star-iran-attack-15845119.html

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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) defended Donald Trump’s vow to use the U.S. military against certain Americans, a group Trump has repeatedly labeled “the enemy within.”

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-27/vance-us-military-15647595.html

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The Navy contracted a ship that used a deep-sea drone to recover the missing remains Dec. 15, the statement said. All of the soldiers were assigned to 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations …

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-12-21/crash-remains-recovered-12429040.html

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