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New Air Force dress blues may draw on service’s heritage

Air Force dress blues may shed their corporate look for a service uniform that reflects the service's heritage as Air Force leaders eye uniform changes.<br>Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes

Approval of a new uniform design would be the first update to the Air Force’s service dress uniform in decades. Airmen have long complained that the current service dress uniform looks more like corporate than military attire.

The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C.<br>Stars and Stripes

IG report: Veteran caregivers face long waits for VA assistance

Last year, lawmakers demanded the VA inspector general investigate the Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers program following news reports of the VA dropping veterans from the program with little notice.

Six provisions of the 2019 NDAA that could impact your wallet

Among the most significant changes, servicemembers are slated to get a 2.6 percent pay raise, which would mark the biggest increase in nine years.

Soldiers from the 9th Infantry Regiment pose with one of three Balangiga bells in the Philippines in 1902 in this photo, displayed in the 2nd Infantry Division museum. Legislators from Wyoming oppose the Pentagon's planned return of the bells to the Philippines.

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Battle lines form over decision to return church bells to Philippines

Veterans and lawmakers from Wyoming have voiced their objections to a Pentagon plan to return church bells seized by U.S. troops more than a century ago after a battle during the Philippine-American war.

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Leonard Glenn Francis, a.k.a. Fat Leonard.<br>Photo obtained by The Washington Post

'Fat Leonard' scandal grows with indictment of three more retired Navy officials

The worst corruption scandal in Navy history reached new heights Friday as federal prosecutors announced bribery and fraud charges against three retired sailors, including an officer who allegedly took part in a wild two-day party with prostitutes in Tokyo that cost $75,000.

William H. McRaven<br>University of Texas

McRaven: ‘I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well’

One day after President Donald Trump stripped former CIA director John Brennan of his security clearance, the commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden said it would be an honor if the president would take away his own clearance next.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Spano instructs a member of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force member during a live-fire exercise aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018.<br>William McCann/U.S. Navy

USS Ronald Reagan kicks off patrol by drilling with Japan in Philippine Sea

The nation’s only forward-deployed carrier — which departed Yokosuka Tuesday with the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius and guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam — had been at its homeport since wrapping up spring patrols in July.

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In a February, 2018 file photo, two T-38C Talons from the 25th Flying Training Squadron taxi on the flightline after a flight Feb. 1, 2018, at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.<br>Corey Pettis/U.S. Air Force

Air Force pilot conscious after crash near Oklahoma base

A pilot is reported to9 be conscious after the T-38C Talon aircraft that he was flying crashed near Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, according to the Air Force.

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The III Marine Expeditionary Force brass band performs last month at the Guam Museum in Hagatna.<br>Matt Burke/Stars and Stripes

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Okinawa-based Marines attempt to win hearts and minds through music

By constant touring and gigging across the Pacific, members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Band attempt to win hearts and minds through the international language of music and by putting a friendly face on American foreign policy.

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Spc. Derek Teegardin, right, uses a rear-naked choke against Spc. Robert Dees at the 2018 U.S. Army Europe Best Warrior Competition, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, at Grafenwoehr, Germany.<br>Martin Egnash/Stars and Stripes

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Soldiers run, shoot, fight to earn title of ‘best warrior’ in Europe

After a week of grueling tests of physical fitness and martial arts skills, three soldiers emerged victorious at the 2018 U.S. Army Europe Best Warrior competition.

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Men carry the coffin of a relative who died in Wednesday's deadly suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-i Barcha, in western Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018.<br>Rahmat Gul/AP

Mattis says further Taliban assaults likely in weeks ahead

The Taliban is likely to keep up its recent surge of violence in advance of scheduled parliamentary elections in October but Western-backed Afghan defenses will not break, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday.

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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi smiles during a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Al-Ittihadiya Presidential Palace on December 11, 2017, in Cairo, Egypt. In the last five years, the U.S. has withheld military aid from Egypt, citing human rights concerns, only to eventually release the funds before any substantial improvement.<br>Mikhail Metzel/TASS/Abaca Press/TNS

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Egypt’s record on human rights is getting worse. Could withholding American military aid help?

The pattern over the last five years has been consistent: The U.S. withholds military aid from Egypt, citing human rights concerns, only to eventually release the funds before any substantial improvement.

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Air Force pilot conscious after crash near Oklahoma base

A pilot is reported to9 be conscious after the T-38C Talon aircraft that he was flying crashed near Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, according to the Air Force.

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