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Former enlisted Marine returns to Okinawa to lead installations command
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (656+ words) Brig. Gen. Ralph Rizzo Jr. speaks to reporters after becoming commander of Marine Corps Installations Pacific at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, June 12, 2026. (Ryan M. Breeden/Stars and Stripes) MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, Okinawa " A general who rose through…...
Three challenges standing between student veterans and a degree " and what colleges can do about them
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (392+ words) Marc CB Maxwell, an education services specialist, explains GI Bill benefits in 2019 in Ansbach, Germany. A Senate bill has been introduced that would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to fix problems that have prevented payment of educational benefits for…...
Trump eyes $870 million school voucher program for DOD personnel based in US
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (482+ words) A tuition voucher program proposed for military families stateside is being touted by the White House as a way to give Defense Department personnel more say in their children's education. President Donald Trump's 2027 budget request includes $869. 5 million for a school…...
New Marine specialty combines welding, machining and 3 D printing
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (330+ words) U. S. Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew Cox uses a grinding wheel to fabricate an M240 B machine gun mount aboard USS Harpers Ferry, June 22, 2019. The Marine Corps is merging Metal Worker MOS 1316 and Machinist MOS 2161 into a new Fabrication Specialist MOS 1321, effective Oct....
DODEA teachers who fled Bahrain get new assignments for the upcoming school year
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (494+ words) Dozens of teachers in Defense Department schools who fled Bahrain at the start of the war with Iran recently received new assignments, the latest development for evacuees waiting to return to the island. The decision doesn't mean Bahrain schools won't…...
Army to cut 10 college ROTC programs, reorganize dozens more
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (527+ words) Army ROTC cadets from Penn State University compete in the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition in West Point, N. Y. , on May 2, 2025. (U. S. Army) Nearly 300 college students in the Army's Reserve Officers' Training Corps will see their units affected by a downsizing triggered from…...
Coast Guard to hold ribbon-cutting ceremony for new Alabama training center
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (297+ words) The Coast Guard'is scheduled to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open a new training center at the former Birmingham-Southern College the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The financially struggling college closed in May 2024. (Birmingham-Southern College handout) The…...
National Guard member sues state of Virginia after being denied state tuition assistance for religious studies
1+ week, 1+ day ago (485+ words) A federal civil rights lawsuit is challenging the denial of state tuition assistance in Virginia to a National Guard member who is studying theology as a pathway to becoming a military chaplain. (Joshua Magbanua/U. S. Air Force) Trace Stevens and two…...
Pentagon schools in Bahrain won't reopen for new school year
1+ week, 3+ day ago (802+ words) The entrance to Bahrain School on Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The Department of Defense Education Activity announced this week that schools in Bahrain will not reopen for the 2026-27 school year, extending uncertainty for military families evacuated from the island after…...
Learning by doing: Army Corps introduces military kids to engineering concepts
1+ week, 4+ day ago (479+ words) Capt. Elliott Orr, of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers" Far East District, demonstrates how buoyancy works to elementary school students at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, May 18, 2026. (Alejandro Carrasquel/Stars and Stripes) OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea " Students at two Defense…...