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Amerigo the beautiful: 60 years later, another US aircraft carrier sails with historic Italian ship The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush recently sailed alongside the Italian navy’s Amerigo Vespucci, a historic reenactment some six decades in the making. Read more >

Japan calls live-fire drills by Russia, China near disputed islands a ‘serious concern’ Russian and Chinese warships fired machine guns off Japan’s northernmost prefecture over the weekend, part of a military exercise that elicited protests from the Japanese government. Read more >

Raptors, F-35Bs demonstrate potentially wider role in region while training in Australia America’s most advanced fifth-generation fighters, the F-22 Raptor and F-35B Lightning II, are putting strategic doctrines to the test in Australia’s Northern Territory. Read more >   Past Pentagon leaders warn of strains on civilian-military relations The Pentagon's former defense secretaries and top generals warned political polarization and other societal strains are creating an "exceptionally challenging" environment for maintaining the traditional relationship between the military and civilian worlds. Read more >   ‘Fat Leonard,’ set to finally be sentenced in long-running Navy bribery scheme, escapes house arrest Leonard Glenn Francis, who has been under house arrest, cut off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet and absconded from his San Diego home sometime Sunday morning, said Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo. Read more >

Hundreds of Red Hill water samples were never tested for fuel Some military families have worried there may have been other contamination in their water that was never identified, and suspect the fuel contamination began months before the November fuel spill at Red Hill. Read more >   Congress quietly debates new sea-based nuclear weapons amid China tensions Both the House and Senate Armed Forces committees approved a provision to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that allows for additional funds for the Navy's Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-­Nuclear program, better known as SLCM-N. Read more >   US: Russia to buy rockets, artillery shells from North Korea A newly downgraded U.S. intelligence finding says the Russian Ministry of Defense is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets an artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine. Read more >   Typhoon batters South Korea, preparations minimize casualties Typhoon Hinnamnor dumped 3 feet of rain, destroyed roads and felled power lines in South Korea’s southern regions. Around 30,000 homes are without electricity as thousands fled to safer ground. Read more >   Lt. Col. James 'Maggie' Megellas, legendary WWII hero, is laid to rest Lt. Col. James "Maggie" Megellas, a paratrooper who took part in several daring World War II operations and became one of the 82nd Airborne Division's most celebrated and decorated soldiers, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Read more >   Video | Stripes in 7 for Sept. 6, 2022 Stories in this edition focus on a report that says the VA prematurely denied Camp Lejeune water contamination claims, the two fastest Army women in Europe and more. Read more >

 

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