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My New Orleans (blog)
March 12, 2018
In what has to be perceived as an act of national benevolence, a U.S. Army base in Texas was named after the general who once fought against the American flag. Like the namesake general himself, Fort Hood, scene of a 2009 mass shooting incident, would become a symbol of triumph and tragedy.
Lowell Sun
March 10, 2018
DEVENS -- Fort Devens Museum's monthly program on Saturday, March 17, brings back a focus on the American involvement in World War I. The program picks up the extended celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Camp Devens, which would become the largest U.S. Army base in NewÃÂ ...
Business Insider
March 10, 2018
FORT BLISS, Texas — During my first couple days at Fort Bliss, I had heard smatterings from soldiers about a non-indigenous species of African antelope population that somehow inhabited the training grounds. But no one really quite knew how the animals, known as the oryx, got there. Many of the soldiers told meÃÂ ...
American Military News
March 9, 2018
An American soldier stationed at Camp Carroll in South Korea was found dead Friday morning. U.S. Army Soldiers aboard an M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment prepare to fire its .50-caliber heavy machine gun during live-fire exercises atÃÂ ...
Sentinel & Enterprise
March 5, 2018
They moved around a lot as Hermann was still serving in the Armed Forces, but settled in Lunenburg in the 1960s when Watson was transferred to the U.S. Army base in Fort Devens. Watson learned to speak English by reading the local newspaper from front to back each day. She worked as a homeÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 1, 2018
The U.S. Army base in southern Monterey County sits on nearly 170,000 acres of mountains, valleys and meadows with its main entrance about 25 miles west of Highway 101 near King City. From San Francisco, it takes about three hours to reach the Hacienda on 101, but as I was intent on exploring theÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
February 27, 2018
... by 'chemical incident' – 'multiple victims'. MULTIPLE victims have been identified after a "chemical incident" at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia believed to have been caused by contaminated letters, it has been reported. By Joseph Carey. PUBLISHED: 03:15, Wed, Feb 28, 2018 | UPDATED: 03:16, Wed, Feb 28, 2018ÃÂ ...
Central Telegraph
February 24, 2018
Camp Hero, the US army base built in World War II to defend the coast, sits in 400 acres of woodland near Montauk. During the Cold War, the top secret base was the centre of a series of radars trained on the Atlantic to detect any incoming Russian attacks. But after closing in 1981, it became shrouded inÃÂ ...
Popular Science
February 14, 2018
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the Greenland ice sheet hosted a number of clandestine U.S. Army bases whose job it was to get an estimated 600 medium-range ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads ready for deployment. The largest of these sites was Camp Century, which had the publicÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
December 31, 1999
The truck had been heading from U.S. Army base Fort Greely near Delta Junction to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, DeRuyter said. Army Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton confirmed that the overturned vehicle was an Army truck and not a contractor's. Crighton wasn't sure how many people were in the truck when itÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 10, 2018
Budae-jjigae (aka army base stew) was invented after the Korean war when food was scarce and Koreans had to scrounge or smuggle the ingredients – mainly meat, sausage, spam, and baked beans – from US army bases, mixing them with local flavours gochujang (chilli paste) and kimchi to create aÃÂ ...
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
February 10, 2018
Johnson Controls' federal systems business has signed a $40 million energy savings performance contract with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center to help implement energy conservation measures at a military base located in the Marshall Islands. The company said Thursday it will design,ÃÂ ...
NPR
February 9, 2018
When many of the troops at the U.S. Army base were overseas during the 2010 census, an estimated 10,000 service members were not counted in Christian County, according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who sent a letter to the Census Bureau in support of the policy change. Instead, their numbers wereÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
February 3, 2018
There is effectively only one issue that will decide Sunday's mayoral election in the small town of Nago, in Okinawa Prefecture. But it is one that has pit neighbour against neighbour and family members against each other. “This is a really tight-knit community and if you asked their personal feelings, I don'tÃÂ ...
AdAge.com
January 29, 2018
Ooops: Fitness tracking app Strava released a heatmap of where its users are and inadvertently gave away the location of secret U.S. army bases, The Guardian reports. Ad of the day: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes an appearance in a Super Bowl ad teaser, Ad Age's Jeanine Poggi writes. The concept?
The Guardian
January 29, 2018
Sensitive information about the location and staffing of military bases and spy outposts around the world has been revealed by a fitness tracking company. The details were released by Strava in a data visualisation map that shows all the activity tracked by users of its app, which allows people to record theirÃÂ ...
The Messenger
January 26, 2018
I was hearing from Fort Campbell (U.S. Army base) families about when they were getting paid during the shutdown." Calling the shutdown the result of a "hyper-partisan environment" in Washington, D.C., Comer told the collection of city and county officials from the 10-county BRADD region that he doesn'tÃÂ ...
Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era
January 25, 2018
I was hearing from Fort Campbell (U.S. Army base) families about when they were getting paid during the shutdown." Calling the shutdown the result of a "hyper-partisan environment" in Washington, D.C., Comer told the collection of city and county officials from the 10-county BRADD region that he doesn'tÃÂ ...
Daily Herald
January 22, 2018
Upon graduation, he served as a dental officer during the remainder of the war at U.S. Army bases in San Antonio, Chicago, San Francisco and Denver, and he was honorably discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain. During his time in Los Angeles, he met Ruth Udall of Phoenix, Arizona, while bothÃÂ ...
SlashGear
January 15, 2018
In a somewhat unusual move, the U.S. Army has confirmed that one of its bases have removed five security cameras made in China. One would presume the move was due to security concerns, but that's not the case. The Army confirmed the move, saying the removal was due to “negative perception” aboutÃÂ ...
Gizmodo Australia
January 14, 2018
US Army officials say they replaced five Chinese-made surveillance cameras from Fort Leonard Wood, a base in Missouri, in response to news stories about the company that manufactures them. The five cameras were made by Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, which is 42 per cent ownedÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 12, 2018
The U.S. Army has removed security cameras manufactured by a company largely owned by the Chinese government from a military base in Missouri, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The move came after The Journal reported on the prevalence of devices made by Hikvision. The ChineseÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com
January 10, 2018
Fort Lawton was once part of a 700-acre U.S. Army base on Magnolia bluff, over 500 acres of which were turned into the wooded trails and shoreline vistas of Discovery Park when the federal government handed the land over to the city of Seattle in 1972. What to do with the remaining land, which skirts theÃÂ ...
KOMO News
January 10, 2018
SEATTLE - An old U.S. Army base could help the city reduce its homeless crisis, but even affordable housing advocates fault current plans to convert Fort Lawton. The federal government is willing to turn over 34 acres, including buildings, near Discovery Park if Seattle can redevelop the site into affordable housing. The cityÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 9, 2018
"There are about 5,000 of these tunnels. The North Koreans are like mole people." GettyImages-479838484 U.S. soldiers wearing gas masks stand in a tunnel during a competition to test individual skills at a U.S. Army base in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, on July 8, 2015. AFP via Getty Images/Jung Yeon-Je.
AOL
January 7, 2018
It was there that a Chicago guy stationed at a local U.S. Army base hawked a handful of $100 savings bonds. It was quick cash for a young man in need of a little spending money. Little did he know, that exchange would find its way back to him as a 58-year-old man when he was in even greater need.
Yonhap News
January 5, 2018
On the base relocation, he reaffirmed that the USFK headquarters will move to Camp Humphreys, a refurbished U.S. Army base in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers south of Seoul, within this year. The CFC headquarters, currently in the Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul, will be relocated to the compoundÃÂ ...
Chelsea Now
January 2, 2018
Among those names were Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, the Texan convicted of helping plan the 2009 attack on a US Army base in Afghanistan; and Maalik Alim Jones, a Maryland man who pled guilty to conspiring to support the Shabab in Somalia, as reported in a Dec. 22, 2017 New York Times article.
ABS-CBN News
January 2, 2018
A barbed-wire fence is seen at a US army base in Seoul. South Korea Tuesday proposed high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un called for better relations and said his country might attend the Winter Olympics in the South. File/Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters. South KoreaÃÂ ...
Herald-Mail Media
January 2, 2018
CASCADE — The deep freeze across the area forced Fort Ritchie Community Center officials to postpone their seventh annual Polar Bear Plunge, an event traditionally held on New Year's Day. Lake Royer, one of two manmade lakes on the grounds of the former U.S. Army base in Cascade, was frozenÃÂ ...
Kaplan Herald
January 2, 2018
British police arrested a man who tried to force his way into a military base in central England used by the U.S. air force, triggering a brief lockdown. The Mildenhall Royal Air Force base said security staff locked down the base, used by the United States to refuel U.S. and NATO aircraft in Europe, at aboutÃÂ ...
The Robesonian
December 22, 2017
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — An Evergreen native has been assigned the post of garrison command sergeant major at the U.S. Army base known as the birthplace of America's space and missile program. Command Sgt. Major Vincent McCormick assumed his new duties at White Sands MissileÃÂ ...
The Two River Times
December 22, 2017
FORT MONMOUTH – The former cinema/live performance theater along the high-profile Avenue of Memories (Route 537) in Eatontown is part of the latest group of properties on the former U.S. Army base about to be offered for sale. Other parcels include the Commissary, Post Exchange, warehouseÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
December 13, 2017
After the Army and Air Force split, the Air Force got the armed aircraft in the divorce settlement. One of the unarmed transports the Army flies is the C-23 Sherpa. According to MilitaryFactory.com, the Sherpa was acquired to serve as an intra-theater transport between U.S. Army bases in Europe. However, the plane soon tookÃÂ ...
East Oregonian
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Army's Base Realignment and Closure office was at one point expected to transfer land to the CDA for industrial and agricultural development and a wildlife preserve in 2013, but that deadline has since moved several times, most recently to November 2018. During Tuesday's meeting, however,ÃÂ ...
Lewiston Morning Tribune
December 31, 1999
She served on the S.S. Stafford Hospital Ship as a first lieutenant during World War II and in the U.S. Army Base General Hospital in Manila, Philippines, and Japan during the American occupation. Returning home to this area, she found employment with the Northern Idaho District Health Department as aÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
December 3, 2017
It will be the Marine Corps' first recruiting substation outside the U.S. when it opens in a couple of months, and the trainees who come through it will eventually end up in the Lowcountry. The substation will open Feb. 15 at Kleber Kaserne, in Germany, according to the Corps. A U.S. Army base in Kleber — inÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 1, 2017
A US army base worker has been jailed for life for rape and murder in Okinawa, in a case that sparked anti-US protests in Japan. Kenneth Franklin Shinzato was found guilty of assaulting and killing a 20-year-old local woman last year. The incident prompted deep outrage among locals and renewed callsÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
November 30, 2017
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The Marine Corps is opening its first full-time recruiting station outside of the United States at Kleber Kaserne in Germany, the Corps said. The Marines are establishing the new station — located in an area with about 50,000 U.S. personnel and family members — inÃÂ ...
Virginian-Pilot
November 17, 2017
Other bases that recorded higher numbers included Fort Hood, a U.S. Army Base in Killeen, Texas, that fielded 199 reports of sexual assault last year. Camp Lejeune, a Marine base in Jacksonville, North Carolina, received 169 reports. The Department of Defense published the data broken down by baseÃÂ ...
Daily Egyptian
October 27, 2017
A scholar of ancient art history and Roman sarcophagi, Mont Allen was fathered by an Olympian and raised on a U.S. Army base in Germany.
Black Enterprise
October 26, 2017
Today is the 18th annual celebration of Lights On Afterschool, in which events celebrating the work of after-school programs are held in unique ...
Stars and Stripes
October 25, 2017
It may sound like the plot of a kung fu movie, but it's happening here at a U.S. Army base. Base Chaplain (Maj.) Kevin Hovan teaches aikido to ...
CNN
October 25, 2017
Nestled in a partial maritime forest on the site of a former U.S. Army base now controlled by the National Park Service, Camp Rockaway's tents ...
Stars and Stripes
October 19, 2017
A WWII-era, unexploded bomb is revealed at a construction site for a new school near the U.S. Army's Grafenwoehr Training Area on ...
Haaretz
October 8, 2017
A portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump is set on fire by Iranian mourners during the Donald Trump is set on fire by Iranian mourners during ...
Rudaw
October 7, 2017
Soldiers and US contractors were walking around as if on a US Army Base and not outside the “wire.” Full battle rattle was nonexistent. My next ...
The Columbus Dispatch
October 7, 2017
FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say an Army private from Ohio has been killed after a military vehicle struck a formation of soldiers at a ...
East Oregonian
October 5, 2017
A kick in the pants to U.S. Army's Base Realignment and Closure Division, which has once again failed to meet its deadline for handing over ...
New York Times
September 29, 2017
Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh. Credit U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In January 2009, two trucks packed with ...
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