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Fort Riley, JBLM brigades tapped for fall Europe, Korea deployments The Pentagon will send Fort Riley’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division to Europe and JBLM’s 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division to South Korea in the coming months. Read more >

GAO finds fault with VA’s system for dealing with claims for ailments linked to Agent Orange The GAO found that of the 130,000 veterans submitting claims for those conditions during the 18-year period, only 11,000 were granted benefits. Read more >

Four years later, mother of Marine found dead on Okinawa base still seeking answers Pfc. Ronald Valentin was found dead in a ditch on Camp Hansen in 2018. His mother holds on to hope that one day her questions about what happened to him will be answered. Read more >   ‘Dirt det’ marks first time American F-35Bs have operated from an Australian base A dozen Marine Corps F-35B Lightning IIs flying from this Outback base are the first of the U.S. military’s latest stealth jets to operate from Australian soil. Read more >   Australia training preps F-35 pilots for long-range battles that could end in dogfight During Pitch Black drills in Australia’s Northern Territory, U.S. and Australian pilots are honing the skills they need to carry out long-range missile strikes. The 21-day exercise involving 17 nations and hundreds of airmen ends Thursday. Read more >

US military on Okinawa buckles up as Typhoon Hinnamnor bears down Hinnamnor is projected to be a Category 2-equivalent typhoon when it passes 216 miles west of Kadena Air Base at approximately 11 a.m. Sunday, the 18th Wing Weather Flight said. Read more >   Bridge of Remagen WWII museum among sites offering free visits on day dedicated to preserving past In the late months of the war, arriving soldiers with the 1st U.S. Army were surprised to find the Ludendorff railroad bridge spanning the Rhine River still intact. Its capture on March 7, 1945, enabled rapid establishment of a bridgehead. Read more >   Troops heading to South Korea will no longer need negative pre-travel PCR test A PCR test for COVID-19 will no longer be required for U.S. military personnel before they arrive in South Korea from another country. Read more >   Service members recently identified from past conflicts include Silver Star recipient, Bataan Death March POWs Nearly two dozen service members from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars were accounted for last month. Read more >   Goodbye, Little Debbie: Snack cakes to gradually disappear from commissary shelves The bakery best known for its Little Debbie line will no longer be providing its products to commissaries at U.S. military bases at home and overseas. Read more >   Iran briefly seizes 2 US sea drones in Red Sea amid tensions A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident before the military offered a formal statement, identified the seized drones as Saildrone Explorers. Read more >

 

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