Nancy is an Italy-based reporter for Stars and Stripes who writes about military health, legal and social issues. An upstate New York native who served three years in the U.S. Army before graduating from the University of Arizona, she previously worked at The Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times. Over her nearly 40-year journalism career she’s won several regional and national awards for her stories and was part of a newsroom-wide team at the Anchorage Daily News that was awarded the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Army Col. Charles Bergman happened upon one of Germany’s worst train crashes in years on Friday. He and others stopped traffic, called rescuers, helped people out of the creek, checked airways and wounds, laid injured people near the side of the road and tried to calm hysterical victims.
The Army and Air Force have removed a significant hurdle service women face in obtaining abortions, adopting new guidance just as the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide.
U.S. tankers and infantry soldiers helped liberate Vicenza, Italy, 77 years ago, braving German sniper fire on the city's Corso San Felice Fortunato, or street of lucky fortune. Then they liberated a teenager's birthday cake.
A major lapse in precautions led to a COVID-19 outbreak last year that ravaged a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army battalion and demonstrated how the illness could rapidly degrade readiness, according to a recent report in the military’s monthly medical journal.
Two former top U.S. commanders in Europe signed an open letter arguing for a limited no-fly zone in Ukraine, despite a vow by President Joe Biden and NATO not to implement one.
Scores of battalion scouts, the most physically fit of an already fit brigade, spent weeks under the tutelage of Italian Alpine, the Italian army's specialist mountain infantry famed for their winter warfare skills.
The spa town is awash in warm mineral waters from the Euganean Hills funneled into hundreds of hotel spas and baths, many of them old and grand, with a focus on wellness and a path toward gluttony and sloth.
An Army judge has ruled in a second case that a unanimous guilty verdict is required to convict a soldier facing a court-martial for alleged sexual assault, putting the trial on hold while the determination is reviewed.
Osteria ai Promessi Sposi, or tavern of the betrothed, located in the Cannaregio district in an alley about a fifth of a mile from the Ponte di Rialto, is a terrific choice.
From 1990 through November 2021, at least 458 people affiliated with the military committed criminal acts that were motivated by political, economic, social, or religious goals, according to a study.
An Army judge’s novel ruling to require a unanimous guilty verdict in an upcoming court-martial has drawn an array of characterizations by military law experts: totally wrong, partially right, rogue and brave among them.
Vicenza’s Renaissance treasures have proved to be equally enduring and glamorous. Many of them can now be viewed in all their dazzling brilliance in one location — and for much less than the cost of a precious stone.
Even amid resistance to the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, military doctors and public health officers are urging all active-duty troops up to age 26 to be inoculated against HPV if they haven’t already taken the vaccine.
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