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Last survivor of USS Utah, sunk during Pearl Harbor attack, dies at age 105

Warren “Red” Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, died on Christmas Day.

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte addresses reporters Dec. 3, 2024, ahead of meetings of the alliance's foreign ministers in Brussels.

NATO calls for investigations of Baltic cable cutting, commercial plane crash

Longest play in school history helps Navy rally past Oklahoma in Armed Forces Bowl

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Special Forces soldier killed at training range on Florida base

World War II Army nurse veteran celebrates her 105th birthday

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An F-22 Raptor taxis at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 9, 2019.

JBER airman facing federal charges tied to AI-generated child sexual abuse images

Air Force looks for more recruits by expanding waiver list

New dining hall at air base in South Korea is a bigger, breezier upgrade

Navy

A former runway with cars parked on it juts out into Mountain Creek Lake.

Plan to put houses on former Dallas airfield stalls as city’s fight with Navy continues

USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after combat operations deployment in Middle East

USS Cole returns home after challenging 7-month combat deployment

Space Force

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Space Force guardians overwhelmingly accepting of new fitness tracking in study

Birthdays not taken for granted as the Space Force turns 5

SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours

Coast Guard

Crews from Coast Guard cutters Hamilton (WMSL 753) and Munro (WMSL 755) conduct at-sea training in the Pacific Ocean, March 12, 2024. Hamilton and Munro exchanged cutter boats and sailed in formation during this evolution. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Ray Corniel)

Congressional investigations find former Coast Guard commandant chose to bury report on sexual misconduct at service’s academy

House heaps bipartisan blame on Coast Guard for delays in cutters for Arctic defense

Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloads $182.8 million in seized cocaine

Marine Corps

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Childhood cancer proves no match for Texan who beat the odds to become a Marine

Drone reports close airport at US air base in Japan, divert passenger flight

Smoke, flames seen after military helicopter makes emergency landing at Camp Pendleton

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Ukraine risks losing all the Russian land it seized within months, US officials say

Azerbaijani and US officials suggest plane that crashed may have been hit by weapons fire

Montenegro approves the extradition of cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon to the United States

Asia-Pacific

FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

China launches largest amphibious warship in show of naval power

Chinese man sentenced to death for killing 35 people after driving into a crowd

China sanctions 7 companies over US military assistance to Taiwan

Middle East

People last week investigate a crater in a Tel Aviv neighborhood left by a missile launched from Yemen. MUST CREDIT: Heidi Levine for The Washington Post

Israel prepares for a new battlefront against the Houthis in Yemen

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FILE - Members of a French military flight crew talk on the tarmac at France's military air base in Dakar, Senegal, between flights toward the presumed site of the crash of a missing Air France flight Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

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The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge is collapsed into the Tocantins River in Estreito, Maranhao state, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec 24, 2024. Several cars and trucks crossing the bridge when it collapsed on Dec. 22 fell into the river, killing nine people and others are still missing. (AP Photo/Marinho Drones)

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Veterans

Metaphor: ReFantazio.

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Sports

Navy quarterback Blake Horvath raises his arms to embrace teammates to celebrate a touchdown during a college football game.

Longest play in school history helps Navy rally past Oklahoma in Armed Forces Bowl

Navy quarterback Blake Horvath read the play perfectly and turned it into the longest in school history, a 95-yard touchdown run in the Armed Forces Bowl. The score helped the Midshipmen rally to beat Oklahoma 21-20 to close out their season.

History

HED: Friend to Foe, 2012

Shegal district, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012: First Lt. Andrew Ferrara, a 23-year-old platoon leader from Torrance, Calif., talks with locals during a patrol of the main bazaar in Shegal district, Kunar province.

Through meetings with insurgent leaders in the district, Ferrara and Capt. Michael Kolton, commander of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, try to persuade them to defect and cooperate with them. "How do you reconcile someone that has a personal hatred against everything that you stand for?" Kolton said. It's a question they not only ask about the insurgents, but also of themselves having lost friends - and in Ferrara's case, his older brother - to insurgent attacks.

Read the full story here: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/foe-to-friend-gis-leery-about-working-with-taliban-defectors-who-wanted-them-dead-1.174518

META TAGS: Afghanistan; Operation Enduring Freedom; U.S. Army; Company B, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment;

Friend to Foe, 2012

Shegal district, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012: First Lt. Andrew Ferrara, a 23-year-old platoon leader from Torrance, Calif., talks with locals during a patrol of the main bazaar in Shegal district, Kunar province.

Living

Metaphor: ReFantazio.

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Travel

Living room of the Georgetown Manse with its original parquet flooring and custom-made fireplace.

A touch of Downton Abbey in Washington

Movies in English are shown at Cinecitta Multiplexkino in Nuremberg, Germany, with tickets costing about 11 euros.

Cineplex along the river in Nuremberg offers more than just movies

A display of butterflies in the 599 Museum at the base of Mount Takao in western Tokyo.

Museum near Tokyo’s most popular hiking spot highlights Mount Takao’s flora, fauna