Thursday, March 9, 2023

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Troops up for 5.2% pay hike under White House’s $886B defense budget request

The White House’s $6.8 trillion funding request for fiscal 2024, which begins Oct. 1, includes $842 billion specifically for the Defense Department, representing a $26 billion increase to the amount appropriated by Congress last year.

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Sergeant’s reassignment to permanent US base in Poland marks milestone

The U.S. Army’s first permanent base in Poland just got its first permanently assigned active-duty soldier.

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North Korea fires short-range missile ahead of US joint military drills with South

North Korea fired its fifth ballistic missile of the year after U.S. intelligence officials assessed that the communist regime had “no intention of abandoning” its weapons program.

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High scores for fitness will clear soldiers of weight requirements under new Army policy

Service officials said they believe those exemptions will help reduce the error rate of the Army’s body fat measurement method to almost zero.

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Air Force Academy mourns loss of second cadet to die this year

The Air Force Academy is mourning the loss of a “cherished member” of its cadet wing, and its second student to die this year.

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Beards don’t belong in the military, senior enlisted adviser says at Air Force symposium

Airmen and other service members clamoring for the right to grow a beard had their hopes crushed by the military’s top enlisted adviser, who called the issue a waste of time during a recent video.

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Defense pros discuss women, peace and security at US Army Japan symposium

The Women, Peace and Security Symposium at the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan focused on the role of women from the defense sector in maintaining global peace and security.

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Marine Corps moving Hawaii firing range threatened by shoreline erosion

The Marine Corps has begun the process of moving inland the first of four short-distance firing ranges on Oahu threatened by encroaching beach erosion.

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US greenlights $1.38 billion sale of advanced eye-in-the-sky aircraft to Japan

The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Japan of more early warning planes and support equipment, the Defense Department said.

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US air base in Japan marks International Women’s Day with student aviation event

Female pilots and aircrew marked International Women’s Day on this base in western Tokyo by greeting students for their second annual Fly Girls event.

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Marine in Japan who refused COVID-19 vaccine faces unrelated insubordination charge

Lance Cpl. Catherine Arnett, 24, of Fort Worth, Texas, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday for alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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