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www.stripes.com March 6, 2023 | View in browser   DOD’s reversal on civilian medical care ‘a move in the right direction,’ advocates say The Defense Health Agency said DOD civilian employees in the Indo-Pacific region may seek treatment again at base hospitals for chronic health conditions on a space-available basis. Read more > Gear issued to soldiers deployed to Europe last year didn’t always meet standards, IG finds When thousands of US-based soldiers rapidly deployed to Europe last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some of the combat gear they pulled from storage depots was substandard, according to a new Defense Department report. Read more > Navy reduces child care waitlist but needs workers to keep up momentum The service has approached the problem in several ways, including an increase in the fee assistance for off-base day cares and in-home nannies, revitalizing unused space to be child-safe and beefing up employee incentives to get more workers on board. Read more >   Female 4-stars discuss sexism in the service, say the military is ‘much better’ for women now All four of the U.S. military’s four-star female officers gathered in public for the first time to talk about the sexism that they have experienced in the service and how far women still must go before they’re fully integrated members of the armed forces. Read more >   South Korea takes steps to resolve comfort women, wartime labor claims against Japan South Korea’s government is pushing forward a plan to resolve its decades-long quarrel with Japan over the compensation for forced-labor victims during World War II. Read more > Destroyer USS John Finn arrives in Japan ahead of USS Shiloh’s decommissioning The USS John Finn will ultimately replace the USS Shiloh, which is due to be decommissioned at Naval Base Pearl Harbor. Read more >   Battleship, bomber crew members among troops recently ID’d from past conflicts Crew members of the USS Oklahoma and bombers shot down during World War II were among the seven service members recently accounted for by the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency. Read more >   Fort Bliss soldier gets 8 years in prison for giving fentanyl to person who died from the drug Spc. Francisco Cardenas, 26, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide Feb. 27 for the death that occurred March 28, 2022. Read more >   Zelenskyy vows not to retreat from Ukrainian city of Bakhmut Ukraine military leaders are determined to hold onto Bakhmut, Kyiv officials said Monday, even as Russian forces continued to encroach on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city that they have sought to capture for six months at the cost of thousands of lives. Read more >   North Korean missiles continue to cause tension South Korean and American officials are expecting North Korea to continue missile launches — and potentially a seventh nuclear test — amid a tense regional standoff. Read more >   Iran's top leader says suspected poisonings 'unforgivable' "If the poisoning of students is proven, those behind this crime should be sentenced to capital punishment and there will be no amnesty for them," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. Read more >   STRIPES.COM | EUROPE | JAPAN | KOREA | OKINAWA | GUAM © 2022 Stars and Stripes · 633 3rd St. NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20001-3050