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U.S. Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, Chief, National Guard Bureau, kicks off Thanksgiving week with a visit to Soldiers deployed on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo supporting the KFOR mission on November 24, 2021. Visits like this lift Soldier’s spirits during the Holiday Season and helps them continue their mission to support a safe and secure environment for Kosovo. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gloria Kamencik)

National Guard’s top general tests positive for coronavirus

Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson’s positive test came after he returned to Washington from a USO trip overseas last week that included stops in Poland and Kosovo. A military spokesman said Hokanson was tested several times during the trip with a negative result each time.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Kennedy, Assistant Adjutant General-Air, and Commander of the New Jersey Air National Guard recieves the Covid-19 booster shot at the 108th Wing, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov. 6, 2021. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

Nearly 9,000 active-duty airmen and guardians remain unvaccinated one month after deadline to get the shots

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Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) navigates in the Gulf of Mexico during bravo trials. In a short, informal ceremony to be shown live on the Facebook page of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., Commander Daniel Hancock at 10 a.m. will accept delivery of the ship on behalf of the U.S. government from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division.

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Staff Sgt. David Diehl II, 436th Communications Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of wing cybersecurity, displays his new United States Space Force tapes and service branch patch at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Seaman Denisse Estrada-Suarez administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a Marine at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in June. A new medical study found that 23 male service members experienced cases of heart inflammation, a higher rate than expected among the hundreds of thousands who received the coronavirus vaccination. The benefits of the vaccine greatly outweigh the risks, the study concluded.

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Europe

FILE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with top level military officials in Minsk, Belarus, on Nov. 22, 2021. A human rights group in Belarus says authorities have raided the homes of dozens of journalists and activists. The Viasna human rights center reported that independent journalists, human rights advocates and activists in at least nine large Belarusian cities had phones and computers seized during the searches and were interrogated. (Andrei Stasevich/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Asia-Pacific

Sailors load water into a car at the Navy Exchange just outside of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 1, 2021. It is one of three water distribution sites set up by the Navy for residents of military housing experiencing foul-smelling tap water in their homes.

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FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Africa

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Tiffany Hagler-Geard

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China calls on citizens to leave eastern Congo after attacks

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Americas

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri, center, arrives to court accompanied by former Vice President Marta Gabriela Michetti, lower right, in Dolores, Argentina, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Macri was summoned to court as a suspect in the case of alleged spying on the relatives of the crew-members who died in the ARA San Juan submarine in 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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