African American and Hispanic veterans were more likely than their white counterparts to get the COVID-19 vaccine at a veterans’ health facility in the first few months that mRNA vaccines were available in the U.S, a study published Wednesday found.

As Afghan evacuees at Rhine Ordnance Barracks wait to move on, they are being introduced to aspects of American life.

Flights carrying Afghan refugees from Germany to the US are expected to resume in the coming days following a weekslong pause imposed by US health authorities after measles cases, a US Air Force official said.

An event honored paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who died in 1944 crossing the Waal River during Operation Market Garden.

Service members overseas will have to pay more to mail packages to the U.S. starting next month when the U.S. Postal Service hikes rates for the peak end-of-year holiday period, a USPS spokeswoman said.

At ceremonies at Ramstein Air Base, Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern and Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, scores of people remembered those who died when hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. and a field near Shanksville, Pa.

The atmosphere is wonderful and cuisine is tasty and enjoyable, if not quite entirely French.

Around 82% of troops have had at least one coronavirus shot, and infection rates in the military are significantly lower than they are across the general population, said Lt. Gen. Ron Place, head of the Defense Health Agency. 

Under new rules that take effect Sunday, people who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 can attend indoor and outdoor gatherings, go to a movie, shop and eat out, much as they did before the pandemic, Rheinland-Pfalz Chief Minister Malu Dreyer said Tuesday after meeting with state leaders.

Active-duty airmen and Space Force guardians who do not have a valid exemption must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Nov. 2, and reservists and Guardsmen by Dec. 2.