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For servicemembers at Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras, deployments offer a rare chance to 'get away from it all'
Senior Airman Peter Guy gathers hugs during a visit to Our Lady Guadalupe Children's Home, an orphanage near Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, on March 8, 2019.<br>Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes
Senior Airman Peter Guy gathers hugs during a visit to Our Lady Guadalupe Children's Home, an orphanage near Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, on March 8, 2019.<br>Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes

About 600 soldiers and airmen live and labor on the relatively remote installation that offers few of the amenities servicemembers are used to — but to those stationed at Soto Cano, the base offers a deployment unlike any other.

Traffic cameras are ubiquitous in Vicenza and contribute to the majority of tickets for speeding, rolling through stop signs and entering restricted areas. The tickets can take months or years to arrive and the fines can be steep.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes
Traffic cameras are ubiquitous in Vicenza and contribute to the majority of tickets for speeding, rolling through stop signs and entering restricted areas. The tickets can take months or years to arrive and the fines can be steep.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes

New efforts mean a crash course in Italian traffic tickets for some servicemembers

Italian authorities recently complained that Americans weren’t paying or even responding to their traffic tickets. As a result, some on base said they’re receiving hundreds or thousands of euros in ticket fines at once.

Commercial aircraft arrive at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo after being diverted from Narita International Airport following a major earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. <br>Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force
Commercial aircraft arrive at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo after being diverted from Narita International Airport following a major earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. <br>Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force

Tokyo eyes nearby US air base for handling flights during Olympics

The Japanese government has suggested that allowing civilian planes to land at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force, could help increase the number of flights arriving during the games, a news report said Friday.

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Sgt. 1st Class Kai Waters<br>GoFundMe

Grand jury dismisses assault charge against Army sergeant in road rage case

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Marine Corps Chaplain Rev. Robert Brett, right, conducts a baptism in Vietnam. <br>Courtesy of the Brett Family and Lisa A. Lark
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U.S. Marines of Marine Rotational Force Darwin exit a Boeing 777 at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Darwin, Australia, on April 12, 2019.<br>Jordan Gilbert/U.S. Marine Corps
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Traffic cameras are ubiquitous in Vicenza and contribute to the majority of tickets for speeding, rolling through stop signs and entering restricted areas. The tickets can take months or years to arrive and the fines can be steep.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attends a meeting on Friday, April 19, 2019, at the Department of State in Washington.<br>Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP

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Commercial aircraft arrive at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo after being diverted from Narita International Airport following a major earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. <br>Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force

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Traffic cameras are ubiquitous in Vicenza and contribute to the majority of tickets for speeding, rolling through stop signs and entering restricted areas. The tickets can take months or years to arrive and the fines can be steep.<br>Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes

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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. Talks between Afghan leaders and Taliban insurgents were cancelled, dealing a major setback to a U.S.-led peace process aimed at ending nearly 18 years of war. <br>Stars and Stripes

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Marine Corps Chaplain Rev. Robert Brett, right, conducts a baptism in Vietnam. <br>Courtesy of the Brett Family and Lisa A. Lark
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Commercial aircraft arrive at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo after being diverted from Narita International Airport following a major earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. <br>Samuel Morse/U.S. Air Force
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