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Video | Stripes in 7 for March 10, 2022

Stars and Stripes • March 10, 2022

Here’s our latest edition of Stripes in 7, featuring top stories impacting the U.S. military community in a seven-minute recap.

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Air Force veteran Dick Schulze is the country’s oldest competitive snowboarder.

Air Force veteran Dick Schulze is the country’s oldest competitive snowboarder. (Facebook)

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Spc. Christopher Andres of the Oregon National Guard provides security for a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules during operations in Somalia in 2020. President Joe Biden signed an order that will have hundreds of U.S. special operations troops return to Somalia reversing a decision by former President Donald Trump to pull 700 service members from the country, The New York Times reported May 16, 2022.

Africa

Reversing Trump, Biden acts to deploy US troops to Somalia

More than a year after after the test of a new records system began in October 2020, a Spokesman-Review investigation found problems with the system continue to threaten patient safety and have left employees at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane exhausted and demoralized, with nearly two-thirds saying in a recent internal survey it has made them consider quitting.

Veterans

DOD, VA did not do enough to make new electronic health record system work, IG audit finds

The Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Sioux City transits the Atlantic Ocean, May 3, 2022. The ship is beginning its inaugural patrol in the 6th Fleet's area of operations.

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