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A black and white photo of people, mostly men in suits, walking while holding photos of Martin Luther King Jr.

700 hail King in Osan march

More than 700 American military men of all races and ranks marched in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Sunday, climaxing a weekend tribute here to the slain civil rights leader.

Soldiers pose in masks at Osan Air Base, South Korea, Jan. 6, 2022.

South Korea pressures US military to do more to curb coronavirus infections

Pyeongtaek, where Camp Humphreys is located, reported that roughly 42% of the city’s COVID-19 cases between Jan. 3 and 16 stemmed from people affiliated with the U.S. military, a public health official said.

Japan reported a new one-day pandemic high of 84,795 infections on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022.

US troops are free of home confinement but COVID-19 remains strong in Japan

The U.S. military population in Japan awoke Monday to something closer to normal life after three weeks confined to their homes and military bases to stem the tide of COVID-19.

Robert Hawthorne, chief of the American Forces Network Pacific technical services division, died Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, after suffering a heart attack at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

Longtime AFN leader dies of heart attack at US air base in Japan

Robert Hawthorne, chief of the American Forces Network Pacific technical services division, died Thursday at this base in western Tokyo after suffering a heart attack, according to a Facebook post by the network Saturday.

In 1987, George Smith returned to AFN Nuremberg as an Army civilian after working at Voice of America in Washington, D.C. He led the station of 14 service members and government civilians, moving the affiliate from Nuremberg, Germany, to the former William O’Darby Kaserne in Fuerth. The station is now called AFN Bavaria and is located in Vilseck.

New memoir details AFN DJ Gorgeous George’s odyssey behind the mic

During the Vietnam War, an acne-prone, academic underachiever named George Smith walked into an Army recruiting office in Pennsylvania Dutch country and landed himself a radio gig that lasted for four decades.

A Navy public affairs officer poses for a photo with children at the Dorothea's Project Legacies Charity Center, Danang, Vietnam, during the USS Theodore Roosevelt's port call March 6, 2020.

USS Theodore Roosevelt’s fateful Vietnam port call had blessing of Pacific’s highest commanders

The decision to move forward with the port call was made by high-ranking Pacific military officials only after a thorough analysis of risks posed at that point in the spread of the virus, according to a written statement provided to Stars and Stripes by Pacific Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Myers Vasquez.