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The Navy is proposing to build a new fleet operations facility at its Naples Capodichino site, which is home to U.S. 6th Fleet. Still in the planning stages and unfunded, the new building would be built on the base's southwestern side at the site of a former barracks building seen here on May 19, 2022.

US Navy drawing up plans for fleet operations facility in Italy

The Navy is planning a four-story operations center at the home of 6th Fleet, which oversees naval forces in Europe and Africa.

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President Joe Biden will meet with the leaders of key allies in the Indo-Pacific region to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to security there, as global attention and NATO resources flow into Ukraine to counter the three-month-old Russian invasion.

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The guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal sails through the Gulf of Oman on Feb. 17, 2021.

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Senators reach agreement on health care, benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins

US and allied military bosses gather in Brussels to chart path for NATO in east

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Senators reach agreement on health care, benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins

The PACT Act seeks to provide an easy path to health care and benefits for veterans who served near open-air burn pits, which were used throughout the 1990s and the post-9/11 wars to burn garbage, jet fuel and other materials.

U.S. military drape a national flag over the possible remains of a WWII U.S. airman found in northern Thailand, during a repatriation ceremony Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the U-Tapao Air Base in Rayong province, eastern Thailand. The possible human remains were found at a crash site in a rice field in northern Thailand by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and were sent to Hawaii where they will be tested to see if they belong to a U.S. pilot who went missing in 1944. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai archival find may resolve fate of missing WWII US flyer

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Black Forest Academy goalkeeper Kaleb Kroeker stops an attack on goal from Ramstein's Landon Shockey in the DODEA-Europe boys Division I semifinals on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Ramstein, Stuttgart to finally meet with title on the line

Naples, American Overseas School of Rome play for Division II championship, while Sigonella and AFNORTH face off for D-III crown.

Ramstein’s Isabel Fischer, right tries to get past Lakenheath’s Mary Lowe in a Division I girls semifinal at the DODEA-Europe soccer championships in Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 18, 2022. Fischer scored the games only goal as the Royals advanced to Thursday’s final against Stuttgart.

Field down to final six teams

Sigonella pitcher Jackson Surls tags out Hohenfels' Nathan Angulo as he tried to score after a passed ball on Saturday, April 30, 2022, at Aviano Air Base, Italy.

Baseball, softball open three-day run Thursday

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South Vietnam, December, 1968: A village official checks refugees against lists in an attempt to sort out suspected Communists at a camp near Dien Ban, a small village 10 miles south of Da Nang. More than 2,600 refugees who had been evacuated from 30 hamlets and 14 villages were housed at the camp, where they were cared for by and received aid from U.S. soldiers and Marines and the South Vietnamese government.

Refugees in Vietnam, 1968

South Vietnam, December 1968: A village official checks refugees against lists in an attempt to sort out suspected Communists at a camp near Dien Ban, a small village 10 miles south of Da Nang.