Stripes Today
Memories with Stars and Stripes
A collection of reader submitted Memories with Stars and Stripes Pacific.
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Career Day at South Korea fighter base fuels elementary interest in aviation
Curious, career-minded fourth- and fifth graders spent a recent afternoon collecting information from aviation professionals at the annual Career Day on this U.S. installation south of Seoul.
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Pentagon project seeks to ID American POWs killed in Tokyo prison fire of 1945
Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze.
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Former Navy warship goes down unexpectedly ahead of sinking exercise
A decommissioned U.S. warship, originally selected for target practice during a joint military exercise, sank unexpectedly on its own Monday off the Philippines’ western coast.
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Yokota school unearths Pokemon, Teletubby and other millennial memories from time capsules
Former pupils visited an elementary school at Yokota Air Base in Japan to open a time capsule that was buried in 2000.
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Air Force teams up with Guam to control island’s ‘boonie dog’ population
The Guam government and U.S. military have reached a novel agreement that lets civil engineers work outside Andersen Air Force Base to help rein in the island’s stray dog population.
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Troops repel mock beach assault in the Philippines amid South China Sea tensions
U.S., Filipino and Australian troops dug into beach dunes and unleashed a barrage of firepower — including high-powered rockets — during Balikatan training aimed this week at repelling an amphibious assault.