Corey Dickstein

Corey Dickstein covers the military in the U.S. southeast. He joined the Stars and Stripes staff in 2015 and covered the Pentagon for more than five years. He previously covered the military for the Savannah Morning News in Georgia. Dickstein holds a journalism degree from Georgia College & State University and has been recognized with several national and regional awards for his reporting and photography. He is based in Atlanta.

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Three soldiers in combat gear and holding guns walk through desert shrubbery with the horizon in the background.

Pentagon has spent about $376M on new border ops that NORTHCOM general expects to last ‘years not months’

The new military deployments have surged to the southern border since Jan. 20 when President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to support efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to seal the border.

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Photo of Naval Air Station Key West’s sign. Key West is a state-of-the-art facility for air-to-air combat fighter aircraft of all military services and provides world-class pierside support to U.S. and foreign naval vessels.. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cody R. Babin/Released)

Military families file lawsuit over ‘nightmarish experiences’ in NAS Key West housing

(FORT BENNING, GA) - A Ranger student executes a low crawl through water and under barbed-wire at the Darby Queen obstacle course. This obstacle, like all of the challenges at the Darby Queen, is designed to test the student’s physical fitness and stress their bodies. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick A. Albright, Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning Public Affairs)

Ranger School scrapping traditional pushups and situps for functional fitness test

FBI Director Kash Patel, left, testifies on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, during a House Committee on Intelligence hearing on Worldwide Threats in Washington. (Eric Kayne/Stars and Stripes)

Democrats demand Hegseth resign as top Trump officials still deny classified information was revealed in Houthi attack chat

Dr. Lienne Hill engages her 5th grade students in an interactive lesson at Kessler Elementary School, Fort Stewart. With a dynamic classroom environment and technology at their fingertips, students actively participate in learning and critical thinking activities. DoDEA operates as a field activity of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. It is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and managing pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade educational programs for the Department of Defense. DoDEA operates 160 accredited schools in 8 districts in 11 foreign countries, seven states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. DoDEA Americas operates 50 accredited schools across two districts, located on 16 military installations, including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard bases in seven states, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Committed to excellence in education, DoDEA fosters well-rounded, lifelong learners, equipping them to succeed in a dynamic world.

DOD teachers, child care workers, civilian MEPS and maintenance workers included in categories exempted from Pentagon hiring freeze

Teaching positions at Department of Defense Education Activity schools and on-post day care workers are among more than a dozen classes of jobs that the Pentagon has exempted from a department-wide hiring freeze.

Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk shake hands on stone steps outside the Pentagon as people behind them use their phones to take photos.

Trump, Hegseth deny Musk given China war plans, say Pentagon meeting focused on efficiency, cuts

“Elon Musk is a patriot. Elon Musk is an innovator,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. “Elon Musk provides a lot of capabilities our government and our military rely on, and I’m grateful for that.”

Donald Trump speaks while seated at a desk in the Oval Office and Pete Hegseth stands behind him with a photo of a airplane on an easel to their left.

Boeing awarded $20B to build next American fighter jet, the F-47

President Donald Trump said prototypes of the future aircraft having been secretly flying in recent years. The U.S. hopes the F-47 will be the first 6th generation fighter aircraft to enter military fleets, as China has reportedly also been flying prototype versions of its next generation stealth fighters.

Afghan refugees' temporary housing at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, shown in August 2021. U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz's award for best anti-terrorism program was based partly on the work its security team did during an operation that evacuated tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan.

‘A matter of national honor’: Translator support group works to get Afghan interpreters to US amid changing immigration policies

Thousands Afghan translators who worked with U.S. military personnel remain in Afghanistan or other countries waiting to receive their Special Immigrant Visa, or are awaiting travel even though their visas were approved. But federal funding cuts and an expected travel ban on Afghans have thrown the status of SIV holders into uncertainty.

A KC-135 refueling aircraft flies over the Dale Mabry entrance of Macdill Air Force Base while coming in for a landing in January 2021 in Tampa. The University of South Florida and MacDill announced a new partnership this week.

Marine struck, killed while running on MacDill Air Force Base

Marine leaders described Cpl. Jack Cody as well-liked in his unit and a top performing Marine. He is the second service member to have been struck and killed by a vehicle at MacDill AFB while out running this year.

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll stands by a new sign for Fort Bragg during an official ceremony on the North Carolina Army post March 7, 2025, marking the return of the name Fort Bragg, after it was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023. (Corey Dickstein/Stars and Stripes)

‘A hero worthy of the name:’ Fort Bragg marks return of installation’s old moniker with new WWII soldier namesake

Less than two years after the Army officially changed Fort Bragg — then named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg who was a slave owner and failed military tactician who struggled to relate to his own troops — to Fort Liberty in June 2023, the world’s most populous military base is again Fort Bragg.

A U.S. Air Force OA-1K Skyraider II is parked on the flightline at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Jan. 28, 2025. Air Force Special Operations Command Leadership announced the name for the OA-1K during the Special Air Warfare Symposium in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Feb. 27, 2025. The moniker renews the versatile nature of the A-1 Skyraider, which operated from 1946 through the early 1980s. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natalie Fiorilli)

Skyraider II: Air Force special ops unveils name for new aircraft with nod to attack plane used in Korea, Vietnam

The Air Force’s newest aircraft, a crop-duster style plane modified to perform armed overwatch and intelligence gathering for special operators, will be known as the Skyraider II.

An entrance sign reading “U.S. AIR FORCE” and “Kirtland Air Force Base.”

Airman killed in Kirtland AFB incident was shot after fleeing from ‘attempted detention’

Airman Biron Teel-Scott, 27, of Bordentown, N.J., was identified Sunday as the airmen killed in the incident at about 2 a.m. local time at Kirtland. Teel-Scott was assigned to Kirtland’s 377th Security Forces Squadron.

An entrance that reads “Welcome to Fort Moore” next to another image that says “Welcome to Fort Benning.”

Hegseth hints at reverting Fort Moore to Fort Benning, but Moore family says their name better promotes Army values

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to Fort Liberty, N.C., and Fort Moore, Ga., as Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, respectively, on his first day as defense secretary. But the children of Army Lt. Gen. Hal and Julie Moore urged Hegseth to consider their parents’ legacy before removing their name from the post.

A wooden gavel and block is seen inside the Senate Hart Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Fort Liberty Army officer sentenced to more than 5 years in effort to smuggle guns to Ghana

A Fort Liberty Army officer convicted last year on federal gun smuggling and false statement charges will spend more than five years in prison, a federal judge in North Carolina decided

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