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Pfc. Veronica L. Wynn of Hurtsboro Ala., was engaged in a training exercise when she became unresponsive, Fort Jackson said Thursday. Emergency personnel performed life-saving measures and transported Wynn to a local hospital, where she later died ..read more
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, has been arrested by Russian authorities on charges of criminal misconduct, the Army confirmed Monday. Black was detained Thursday in Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, and remains in custody ..read more
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American and Philippine troops blasted targets in the South China Sea on Monday, honing the skills they’d need to deter an invading force ..read more
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An Alaska-based Army platoon leader died of gunshot injuries he sustained the day before while a bystander to a shooting in downtown Fairbanks, the Army said in a news release ..read more
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Lal-lo Airport is one of nine facilities in the Philippines approved for use by U.S. troops, but it has seen little investment and few improvements recently. Even so, U.S. and Philippine forces are making the best of the situation at the spartan airport during this year’s annual Balikatan exercise ..read more
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The military installation that hosts the U.S. Army’s 207th Military Intelligence Brigade in Longare, Italy, is nameless no longer. It is now called Caserma Matteo Miotto in honor of a soldier from nearby Thiene who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. ..read more
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The 4th PsyOps, a secretive U.S. Army group known as the “Masters of Influence,” has emerged from the shadows of Fort Liberty with a recruitment video that is strange, a little chilling — and crammed with subliminal messages ..read more
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Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, who was stationed in South Korea, traveled through China to Russia to visit a girlfriend. Black was arrested and remains in custody on charges he stole from the woman, U.S. officials said ..read more
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In a shift from its prior stance of taking no action at the site, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently agreed to remove a pipe that is allegedly leaking petroleum contaminants onto the beach near Buxton Beach Access on Hatteras Island ..read more
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U.S. military personnel have completed construction on the floating pier off Gaza’s coast, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Weather conditions make it unsafe to put the dock in place to begin transporting aid into Gaza, but defense officials hope to have it in position later this week ..read more