Marines on Monday began to hang temporary barriers along a wall in San Ysidro, Calif., marking the U.S. border with Mexico as an Air Force flight crew prepared to take off from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Ecuador with the military’s fourth planeload of deported migrants.
Democrats also condemned a separate plan by the Trump administration to freeze federal grants and loans. Direct aid to individuals is not supposed to be affected, but some programs that assist veterans could lose federal funds because the dollars are funneled through the states and passed on to community nonprofits, critics say.
Young soccer players from two Defense Department high schools on Okinawa recently got a chance to prepare for the upcoming season with the coaches of Japan’s top-rated professional team.
From the Stars and Stripes archives: A man carries a bundle of brush past Afghan and coalition soldiers patrolling through the main bazaar in the Shegal district of Afghanistan on Feb. 22, 2012.
Among them: high-altitude waffles, beastly encounters and real-life cowboys.
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