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REFUSAL to jump? #InfantryWeek
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- REFUSAL to jump? #InfantryWeek
- Date posted
- 21 hours ago
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- An 82nd Airborne Division team practiced a "refusal to jump," for the Best Jumpmaster Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia.
The newest competition for the installation’s Infantry Week pitted teams of highly trained paratroopers against each other to test their skills and knowledge of airborne operations.
Video: Ken-Yon Hardy / Stars and Stripes
#militaryeverything #militarynews #usarmy
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- Soldier protests potential ILLEGAL HIT during Lareda Cup Combative
- Date posted
- 22 hours ago
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- The Lacerda Cup Combatives competition was held during the United States Army Infantry Week in Fort Benning, Ga., to test soldiers' skills in grappling, striking and hand-to-hand combat.
Video: Ken-Yon Hardy / Stars and Stripes #militarynews #militaryeverything #infantryweek #usarmy
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- MINESWEEPING the Strait of Hormuz
- Date posted
- 23 hours ago
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- What is the U.S. Navy doing about the threat of potential mines laid in the Strait of Hormuz?
Stars and Stripes reporter Chad Garland lays it out.
#militarynews #iran #middleeast
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- Best Ranger highlights Army's finest
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- The annual Lt. Gen. David E. Grange Best Ranger Competition was held at Fort Benning, Ga., during their Infantry Week events. Watch this video for details.
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- Jumpmaster competition heats up during Infantry Week
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- United States Army Infantry Week competitors competed in the inaugral Best Jumpmaster competition to see who would come out on top. The newest competition duriing Infantry Week pitted teams of highly trained paratroopers against each other to test their skills and knowledge of airborne operations. Watch this video for details.
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- Lacerda Cup Combatives competition keeps soldiers battle ready
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- The Lacerda Cup Combatives competition was held during the United States Army Infantry Week in Fort Benning, Ga., to test soldiers' skills in grappling, striking and hand-to-hand combat.
Watch this video for details.
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- Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Mitsuike Park – a short drive from U.S. Army Japan’s Yokohama North Dock – is so well known for its sakura that it has been named one of Japan’s “Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots” by the Japan Cherry Blossom Association. More than 1,000 cherry trees bloom in succession each spring, coloring the waterside in shades of pink and white. #cherryblossoms #sakura
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- The Coast Guard’s ONLY heavy icebreaker operating in the Antarctic
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- The Coast Guard’s only heavy icebreaker has completed its annual mission of opening ice-clogged supply routes to scientific stations in Antarctica.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star departed McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, on March 1, where its crew supported Operation Deep Freeze 2026. Polar Star’s commander, Capt. Jeff Rasnake, said the operation had a “heavy toll” on service members, but “spirits remain high” as they head back to their homeport in Seattle.
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- US strikes strategic island as Iran war persists
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- U.S. forces struck more than 90 targets on Iran’s Kharg Island on Friday, U.S. Central Command said.
The small coral island about 21 miles off Iran’s coast is the primary terminal through which nearly all of Iran’s oil exports pass.
Read more:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-14/kharg-island-struck-hormuz-updates-march-14-21061930.html
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- Using technology, Army moves combat engineers from the breach to save lives
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- A smoke machine attached to a TRV-150 unmanned aircraft, tested during a training scenario as part of Fort Hood’s 36th Engineer Brigade's effort to improve the survivability rate for front line Army combat engineers.
Read more at Stripes.com.
#usmilitary #militarynews #drones #militarytech
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- SEEK HARDENED SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REAL WORLD.
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Navy officials sent a text message to the military community, whose members were sheltering in place throughout the capital city of Bahrain.
No U.S. casualties have been reported thus far in Bahrain, home to the U.S. 5th Fleet, as well as thousands of sailors and their families.
Stay informed by visiting Stripes.com.
#militarynews #militaryeverything #usmilitary #middleeast #bahrain
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- DAY 3: 19th MP Brigade's Best Warrior Competition
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Soldiers from the 18th Military Police Brigade are competing in the Best Warrior Competition in Germany.
Day 3 featured a 12-mile ruck and live-fire ranges back in Grafenwoehr.
Video: Lydia Gordon / Stars and Stripes
#militarynews #army #militaryeverything #bestwarrior
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- DAY 2 18th MP Brigade's Best Warrior Competition
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Soldiers from the 18th Military Police Brigade are competing this week in the Best Warrior Competition in Germany.
The five-day competition began Monday and will test each competitor’s physical and mental strength.
Soldiers tackled the obstacle course early on day two in Grafenwoehr.
The event was followed by a Chinook flight to Ansbach for land navigation.
Throughout the week, competitors continue to carry heavy rucks across miles of terrain.
After a long day, the soldiers returned to Grafenwoehr.
#militarynews #militaryeverything #army
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- NATO'S DYNAMIC MANTA is underway
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- WATCH: An Italian patrol helicopter hovers above one of four submarines participating in NATO's Dynamic Manta anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
The exercise offers 11 NATO submarine countries, including the U.S., Italy, Greece and Turkey, the opportunity to hone their submarine hunting skills.
Learn more at Stripes.com.
📹: Alison Bath / Stars and Stripes #usnavy #usmilitary #submarine #nato #militaryexercise
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- What's going on with Venezuela? in 60 sec
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Here's an quick rundown of U.S. operations involving Venezuela.
Take a more detailed look at Stripes.com.
#usmilitary #venezuela #venezuelaoil #military #militarynews
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- AIR RAID SIRENS SOUND IN BAHRAIN
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Sirens continued into Thursday evening in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, with alerts instructing U.S. military personnel to shelter in place.
The U.S. naval base in Bahrain appears to have taken extensive damage following several days of Iranian missiles and drone attacks.
Stay informed at Stripes.com.
Video: Shannon Renfroe / Stars and Stripes
#militarynews #militaryeverything #usarmedforces #iran #middleeast #bahrain
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- US submarine SINKS enemy vessel for the first time since WWII
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The U.S. Navy struck and sunk an Iranian warship in international waters on Tuesday, March 4, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, marking the first time a U.S. submarine has sunk an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.
Read more at Stripes.com. #middleeast #iran #militaryeverything #usnavy #militarynews
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- Best Warrior Competition in Germany
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Soldiers from the 18th Military Police Brigade are competing this week in the Best Warrior Competition in Germany. Here's what the second day of this test of physical and mental strength was like for participants.
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(Video by Lydia Gordon/Stars and Stripes)
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- CENTCOM VIDEO: Operation Epic Fury
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- USCENTCOM released a video of strikes during Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
Targets have included command and control, headquarters, air defense sites, ballistic missile sites, anti-ship missile sites and communications centers. U.S. officials have said eight Iranian ships have been sunk.
The update said the attack targeted Iranian submarines but had no additional details.
See details of Operation Fury at Stripes.com.
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- Flames climb the exterior of The Breaker residential tower in Bahrain
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Multiple explosions rocked the Bahrain capital of Manama as air raid sirens blared across the city.
Casualties were possible, but no U.S. casualties were reported in Bahrain as of 1:45pm local time on Saturday. Four American service members were killed in Kuwait.
Stars and Stripes brings you firsthand accounts of what’s happening across the Middle East. Stay up to date at Stripes.com ➡️
#usmilitary #military #militarynews #middleeast #iran
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- Food insecurity among military families up 12 percentage points in nonprofit’s 2025 survey
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- More than a quarter of military families polled in the most recent annual survey by a leading aid organization for service members and veterans said they consistently struggle to put food on the table.
That is among the financial strains of military life that make it a challenge to meet basic needs, Blue Star Families found as part of the nonprofit’s Military Family Lifestyle Survey for 2025. See the full results of the survey at Stripes.com.
#usmilitary #military #militaryfamilies #militarynews #foodinsecurity #bluestarfamily
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- Taura Plum Festival to kick off
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- More than 2,000 plum trees are beginning to bloom at Taura Umenosato, a popular public grove near Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. The site will host the annual Taura Plum Festival, which starts this weekend and runs through March 1.
Produced by Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes
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- Veteran barber closes decades-old shop on US military base in downtown Tokyo
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Harumi Aketo, a Japanese barber, finally laid down his scissors after cutting the hair of U.S. service members, American civilians and Japanese base employees for nearly two decades at the Stars and Stripes Pacific headquarters in central Tokyo.
Read about his life and legacy at Stripes.com.
#usmilitary #japan #military #militarylife #militarynews #tokyo
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- Some Marines could be eligible for extra $50,000
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The Marine Corps is offering service members thousands of dollars in retention bonuses and additional “kickers” in fiscal year 2027.
See if you qualify at Stripes.com.
#usmilitary #usmc #marine #usmarines #military #militarynews
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- Enlisted soldiers have until APRIL 30 to apply for new Army space operations specialty
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The Army forecasts about 1,000 40D billets, which could grow up to 1,500 by 2032.
Learn more at Stripes.com. #usmilitary #army #armyjobs #militarynews #military
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- Bear encounters interrupt US troops’ parachute training in northern Japan
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Reconnaissance Marines had four run-ins with bears during recent parachute training in northern Japan, according to the commander of an Alaska-based U.S. Army battalion.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-01-27/bears-north-wind-hokkaido-japan-20539158.html
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- Pentagon establishes Personal Property Activity as the agency to deal with PCS moves
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The Pentagon is turning the permanent change of station task force into a permanent, joint activity to reform how the department manages moves, the secretary of defense announced.
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- Sights and sounds from the 126th Army-Navy game
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The annual Army-Navy game was played at M&T Stadium in Baltimore, Md., for the 126th time. Navy won the game 17-16.
Watch this video for details.
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- In Memoriam: Dick Cheney
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Former President of the United States, Dick Cheney, died on Nov. 3, 2025. We take a look at Cheney throughout the years. Watch this video for details.
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- More than 75,000 students affected by VA payment delays for education benefits
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Tuition and housing payments are backlogged for more than 75,000 college and trade-school students who are the dependents and survivors of former military members after a software problem stopped automated delivery of their benefits.
The Department of Veterans Affairs expects the slowdown to continue as payments are processed manually. Computer technicians who can fix the error are furloughed in the federal government shutdown.
Read more at Stripes.com.
#veterans #tuition #education #tuitionassistance #governmentshutdown
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- Ukrainian soldiers get mental break participating in 50th Marine Corps Marathon
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Four Ukranian soldiers had the opportunity to get a break from war and participate in the 50th Marine Corps Marathon.
Watch this video for details.
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- PGA Hope continues to help vets
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) helps to build a community where veterans can thrive through the game of golf. Led by PGA of America golf professionals, PGA HOPE introduces golf through a 6-8 week curriculum while creating a path forward for thousands of veterans and active duty service members.
Watch this video for details.
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- KBR shows Army modernization at AUSA
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- With the United States Army modernization at the forefront of defense priorities, KBR is playing a key role in this transformation. They attended the annual. AUSA Conference in Washington, D.C., to. show their capabilities. Watch this video for details.
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- Red Cat Holdings present drone capabilities at AUSA
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Red Cat Holdings delivers mission-ready drone integrated technologies which give the user decisive capabilities in the air, on land and sea. They were at the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington, D.C., presenting their product capabilities.
Watch this video for details.
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- Sights and sounds from the 2025 Army Ten-Miler
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Watch the sights and sounds from the 2025 Army Ten-Miler which was held in Washington, D.C. This was the 41st year for the race. Watch this video for details.
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- USAA, RGIII and Commanders take "positive steps" in helping community
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Former National Football League player, Robert Griffin, III, surprised Norfolk, Va. school kids, military families and Washington Commanders fans with an inspirational speech/pep rally to encourage them to make positive life choices. Griffin along with reps from USAA also unveiled a pop-up installation in the city’s downtown district as part of USAA’s Positive Steps event to help enhance financial literacy.
Watch this event for details.
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- EXEMPT from Army Body Fat Standards?
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Soldiers who score at least 465 points on the Army Fitness Test are eligible to be exempt from the service’s body fat standards.
Learn more:
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-09-10/army-fitness-test-body-fat-standards-19044811.html
#military #army #militarynews #armyfitnesstest #fitness
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- US military community, Germans honor 9/11 first responders with soccer stadium stair climb
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Nearly 300 Americans and Germans at the landmark Fritz Walter Stadium to mark the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, with a memorial stair climb.
Participants climbed 2,071 steps to honor the first responders who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Read the full story at Stripes.com.
#military #usmilitary #neverforget
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- Huey landing at Yokota Air Base
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- A UH-1N Huey helicopter that flew missions during the Vietnam War touches down for the final time at Yokota Air Base, Japan on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025.
Video by Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes
#military #militaryhistory #helicopter
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- Sonoran Desert Institute programs helping veterans use military experience
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The Sonoran Desert Institute programs are helping veterans use their military experience to build meaningful careers in skilled trades like gunsmithing and uncrewed technology, by offering online programs to obtain a degree.
Watch this video for details.
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- Meet the first face U.S. soldiers see in #Korea (The Eighth #Army Theater Gateway Center team)
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “Welcome to Korea!” It’s the first thing many U.S. military service members and their families hear as they pass through the arrival gates. Every year, thousands of U.S. soldiers and their families arrive at Camp Humphreys, the largest overseas U.S. military base located in Pyeongtaek.
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- WEEK 1: National Guard in DC
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- WEEK 1
United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the deployment of 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to help federal agents and D.C. police crack down on crime.
On Aug. 11, 2025, all 800 troops reported to D.C.
Visit Stripes.com for details.
PHOTO: Staff Sgt. Natalie Filzen / U.S. Air National Guard
FOOTAGE: U.S. Air National Guard
VIDEO PRODUCER: Ken-Yon Hardy / Stars and Stripes
#usmilitary #militaryeverything #military #nationalguard #washingtondc
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- Veterans learn about sustainable #agriculture as an occupation
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- #Veterans and military spouses find healing and connection by cultivating not only crops, but also personal growth and fellowship at the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture in Arlington, Va.
Learn more and watch the full video at Stripes.com. #farming #mentalhealth #ptsd
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- Army to reclassify 22,000 airborne jobs, ending jump pay for many paratroopers
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Some Army paratroopers will lose $150 in monthly pay next year as the service reorganizes its airborne force and reclassifies more than 22,000 paid parachutist positions.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-08-13/army-pay-cut-airborne-restructure-18739495.html
#army #military #paratroopers #
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- Junglia theme park opens to boost tourism in northern Okinawa
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- A jungle-themed amusement park designed to boost tourism in northern Okinawa opened Friday, aiming to encourage visitors to spend more time and money in the area.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-07-25/junglia-theme-park-opens-okinawa-18550294.html
Produced by Keishi Koja and Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes
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- Hiroshima pauses in silence to mark 80 years since world's first atomic bombing
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Sights and sounds of the Peace Memorial Ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Memorial park on 6 August 2025.
Held annually, the event aims to console atomic bombing victims and pray for the realization of world peace.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-08-05/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-80th-anniversary-18676713.html
Produced by Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stirpes
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- Pain and leadership: Service members push through the 100-mile Nijmegen march #military
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Military members from around the globe participated in the 100-mile Four Days Marches in Nijmegen, Netherlands from July 15-18, 2025.
The Dutch ‘De 4 Daagse’ began in 1909 with military origins to promote fitness and endurance as required for long-distance marches.
Each year, thousands of locals line the streets to cheer on marchers with encouragement, food, drinks, and high-fives.
This year’s march drew approximately 45,000 civilian and military participants.
Military marchers who finish at the Field of Charlemagne are awarded the well-earned Cross for the Four Days Marches.
Read more and see photos from the event at Stripes.com ➡️
#usmilitary #military #militarynews #militaryhistory #fourdaysmarches
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- A quick Trip to Eltville
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Stars and Stripes travels to Eltville, Germany, on the Rhine River, to see flower gardens, a castle, a museum and more.
Read the story here: https://www.stripes.com/living/europe_travel/quick_trips/2025-07-03/travel-germany-wine-roses-18242466.html
Music:"Royal Banana" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Video: Michael Abrams
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- Soak in 2,000 years of serenity beneath an ancient Japanese camphor tree
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees — a towering guardian of time, deeply entwined with local lore and spiritual tradition.
https://www.stripes.com/living/pacific_travel/quick_trips/2025-06-26/kinomiya-shrine-old-tree-atami-japan-18135180.html
Footage by Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes
Edited by Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes
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- Marine family helps add WWII medic’s name to Okinawa monument
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a memorial honoring the nearly 250,000 people who died during the pivotal World War II fight.
Footage by Brian McElhiney/Stars and Stripes
Edited by Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes
