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Troops could receive hazard pay, awards for service in coronavirus relief efforts
Soldiers and airmen from the Minnesota National Guard conduct COVID-19 testing at an armory on May 23, 2020.<br>Linsey Williams/Minnesota National Guard
Soldiers and airmen from the Minnesota National Guard conduct COVID-19 testing at an armory on May 23, 2020.<br>Linsey Williams/Minnesota National Guard

Thousands of troops who have deployed to help battle the coronavirus pandemic could soon receive hazard pay and awards to recognize their service, the military’s top general said Thursday.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., talks with VA Secretary Robert Wilkie before a Capitol Hill hearing in 2019. At a hearing this week, Wasserman Schultz called the VA's dedcision to keep maintaining tombstones adorned with swastikas "deeply troubling."<br>Stars and Stripes
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., talks with VA Secretary Robert Wilkie before a Capitol Hill hearing in 2019. At a hearing this week, Wasserman Schultz called the VA's dedcision to keep maintaining tombstones adorned with swastikas "deeply troubling."<br>Stars and Stripes

VA secretary wants to keep Nazi gravestones for historical purposes

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie argued Thursday against calls from lawmakers to remove German soldiers’ gravestones etched with swastikas from VA-operated cemeteries.

The mandatory wear date for some Operational Camouflage Pattern and Two-Piece Flight Duty Uniform items has been pushed to Sept. 1, 2020.<br>U.S. Air Force
The mandatory wear date for some Operational Camouflage Pattern and Two-Piece Flight Duty Uniform items has been pushed to Sept. 1, 2020.<br>U.S. Air Force

Airmen won’t be mandated to wear new boots, T-shirts and flag patches until Sept. 1 due to pandemic

The Air Force has delayed its switch to new color schemes for uniform boots, under garments and flag patches until September, citing “unnecessary stress” on its service members due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The auction house Hermann Historica in Munich, Germany is selling a U.S. Medal of Honor on Thursday that was awarded to Pvt. Thomas Kelly for actions during the Spanish-American War. The auction house expects to take in about $5,000 on the sale. <br>Hermann Historica
The auction house Hermann Historica in Munich, Germany is selling a U.S. Medal of Honor on Thursday that was awarded to Pvt. Thomas Kelly for actions during the Spanish-American War. The auction house expects to take in about $5,000 on the sale. <br>Hermann Historica

Senator calls for State Department to stop sale of US Medal of Honor in Germany

A Medal of Honor awarded to an Army private from New York for his actions during the Spanish-American War is listed for sale Thursday at a German auction house. Sen. Ted Cruz wants the State Department to intervene.

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Authorities gather on Centennial Bridge after a shooting Wednesday, May 27, 2020, near Leavenworth, Kan. A Fort Leavenworth soldier is being credited with saving lives after he stopped a person who was randomly shooting on the bridge that connects Kansas and Missouri.<br>John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times
Authorities gather on Centennial Bridge after a shooting Wednesday, May 27, 2020, near Leavenworth, Kan. A Fort Leavenworth soldier is being credited with saving lives after he stopped a person who was randomly shooting on the bridge that connects Kansas and Missouri.<br>John Richmeier/Leavenworth Times

Soldier saved lives by ramming vehicle into shooter, police say

A Fort Leavenworth soldier stopped a shooting spree when he rammed his vehicle into a gunman who had just wounded another soldier, police said.

Members of the Ohio National Guard and 180th Fighter Wing command staffs salute as U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, leaves the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, Ohio, May 6, 2020.<br>Kregg York/Air National Guard
Members of the Ohio National Guard and 180th Fighter Wing command staffs salute as U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, leaves the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, Ohio, May 6, 2020.<br>Kregg York/Air National Guard

Trump pledges to extend federal deployments into August for Guard to fight coronavirus

The National Guard will continue to conduct federally funded missions to combat the coronavirus pandemic through mid-August, President Donald Trump announced Thursday on Twitter.

Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps
Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps

Marine infantry recruit drops 186 pounds to make it to boot camp

Gabriel Ramirez spent his childhood dreaming of being a Marine, but that dream seemed unattainable as a 365-pound teen nicknamed “Meatball.”


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Mark Gooch, an Air Force airman, was arrested Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in the death of Sasha Krause, a Mennonite woman whose body was found off a forest road in northern Arizona.<br>Maricopa County Sheriff's Office /AP

Airman charged in Mennonite woman's death grew up in the faith

An Air Force airman stationed near Phoenix has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. Raised in a Mennonite family in Wisconsin, Mark Gooch joined the military to escape what he told investigators was a difficult, sheltered and restricted life.

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Pedestrians cross the street in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, May 28. <br>Kim Gamel/Stars and Stripes

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Airmen assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing discuss their emergency evacuation plan prior to participating in a large-force exercise at RAF Mildenhall, U.K., May 27, 2020. <br>Benjamin Cooper/U.S. Air Force

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U.S. soldiers leave their vehicles and move toward a village near Forward Operating Base Zangabad in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, in 2013.<br>Stars and Stripes

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The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside a church are laid out as a memorial in Ntarama, Rwanda, on April 4, 2014, to the thousands who were killed during the 1994 genocide. <br>Ben Curtis/AP

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Mark Gooch, an Air Force airman, was arrested Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in the death of Sasha Krause, a Mennonite woman whose body was found off a forest road in northern Arizona.<br>Maricopa County Sheriff's Office /AP

Airman charged in Mennonite woman's death grew up in the faith

An Air Force airman stationed near Phoenix has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. Raised in a Mennonite family in Wisconsin, Mark Gooch joined the military to escape what he told investigators was a difficult, sheltered and restricted life.

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Pedestrians cross the street in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, May 28. <br>Kim Gamel/Stars and Stripes

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Airmen assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing discuss their emergency evacuation plan prior to participating in a large-force exercise at RAF Mildenhall, U.K., May 27, 2020. <br>Benjamin Cooper/U.S. Air Force

Air Force resumes large-scale drills over Europe in North Sea mock showdown

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U.S. soldiers leave their vehicles and move toward a village near Forward Operating Base Zangabad in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, in 2013.<br>Stars and Stripes

Pentagon to propose plans to pull thousands more troops from Afghanistan by Election Day

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The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside a church are laid out as a memorial in Ntarama, Rwanda, on April 4, 2014, to the thousands who were killed during the 1994 genocide. <br>Ben Curtis/AP

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., talks with VA Secretary Robert Wilkie before a Capitol Hill hearing in 2019. At a hearing this week, Wasserman Schultz called the VA's dedcision to keep maintaining tombstones adorned with swastikas "deeply troubling."<br>Stars and Stripes
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., talks with VA Secretary Robert Wilkie before a Capitol Hill hearing in 2019. At a hearing this week, Wasserman Schultz called the VA's dedcision to keep maintaining tombstones adorned with swastikas "deeply troubling."<br>Stars and Stripes

VA secretary wants to keep Nazi gravestones for historical purposes

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie argued Thursday against calls from lawmakers to remove German soldiers’ gravestones etched with swastikas from VA-operated cemeteries.

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Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active following an interdiction in early May 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Active crew uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine from the vessel, worth approximately $37 million.<br>U.S. Coast Guard
Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active following an interdiction in early May 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Active crew uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine from the vessel, worth approximately $37 million.<br>U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard offloads $37 million of cocaine in San Diego

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Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps
Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps

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Gabriel Ramirez spent his childhood dreaming of being a Marine, but that dream seemed unattainable as a 365-pound teen nicknamed “Meatball.”

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Workers from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center begin a second round of drinking water sampling Aug. 1, 2017, at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich. The Air Force is resampling 54 private drinking water wells and two municipal wells near the installation to determine whether levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonate, or PFOA and PFOS, had changed since 2015.<br>Breanne Humphreys/U.S.Air Force
Workers from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center begin a second round of drinking water sampling Aug. 1, 2017, at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich. The Air Force is resampling 54 private drinking water wells and two municipal wells near the installation to determine whether levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonate, or PFOA and PFOS, had changed since 2015.<br>Breanne Humphreys/U.S.Air Force

Restrictions expanded near former Wurtsmith air base after PFAS found in most wildlife

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Army's 1st SFAB is headed to Colombia to boost anti-drug fight

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An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea, May 25, 2020.<br>Zachary Wheeler/U.S. Navy
An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea, May 25, 2020.<br>Zachary Wheeler/U.S. Navy

Navy completes probe into coronavirus outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt

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Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active following an interdiction in early May 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Active crew uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine from the vessel, worth approximately $37 million.<br>U.S. Coast Guard
Bales of cocaine are shown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active following an interdiction in early May 2020, in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Active crew uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine from the vessel, worth approximately $37 million.<br>U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard offloads $37 million of cocaine in San Diego

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Active seized the drugs earlier this month from "known drug-transit zones" in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of North and Central America, according to Coast Guard officials.

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Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps
Gabriel Mendez Ramirez lost 186 pounds on his way to becoming a Marine recruit. Ramirez, from Oceanside, Calif., graduated from Rancho Buena Vista High School last year and recently headed to boot camp.<br>Bernadette Plouffe/U.S. Marine Corps

Marine infantry recruit drops 186 pounds to make it to boot camp

Gabriel Ramirez spent his childhood dreaming of being a Marine, but that dream seemed unattainable as a 365-pound teen nicknamed “Meatball.”

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Workers from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center begin a second round of drinking water sampling Aug. 1, 2017, at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich. The Air Force is resampling 54 private drinking water wells and two municipal wells near the installation to determine whether levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonate, or PFOA and PFOS, had changed since 2015.<br>Breanne Humphreys/U.S.Air Force
Workers from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center begin a second round of drinking water sampling Aug. 1, 2017, at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich. The Air Force is resampling 54 private drinking water wells and two municipal wells near the installation to determine whether levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonate, or PFOA and PFOS, had changed since 2015.<br>Breanne Humphreys/U.S.Air Force

Restrictions expanded near former Wurtsmith air base after PFAS found in most wildlife

State officials last year — too quietly, some contend — expanded hunting and fishing restrictions at Clark’s Marsh, near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, after scientific studies showed excessive levels of PFAS in virtually every living thing tested from the area.

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Army's 1st SFAB is headed to Colombia to boost anti-drug fight

A small team of soldiers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade will deploy next week to Colombia to aid that country in its longstanding fight against drugs, defense officials announced Thursday.

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An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea, May 25, 2020.<br>Zachary Wheeler/U.S. Navy
An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea, May 25, 2020.<br>Zachary Wheeler/U.S. Navy

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Ramstein High School senior Jason Jones Jr. celebrates signing with NCAA college basketball program Austin College.<br>Alison LeClair

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Ramstein High School senior Jason Jones Jr. celebrates signing with NCAA college basketball program Austin College.<br>Alison LeClair

DODEA-Europe athletes will join teams at colleges around the States in the fall

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