Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of reports on the lasting impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. military. As the COVID-19 pandemic erupted last spring, entire swaths of society shut down or went remote. But the vast majority of the military’s missions, including air transportation, basic training and ships …
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister on Thursday ordered troops back to their permanent bases following massive drills amid tensions with Ukraine, but said they should leave their weapons behind in western Russia for another exercise later this year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the Russian pullback along their border. After watching the drills, Russian …
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Fred Hickein, an Oneonta native and veteran of World War II and the Korean War, presented a pair of antique muskets — one more than 200 years old — to the Greater Oneonta Historical Society on Wednesday, April 21. One of the firearms, which belonged to Hickein’s great-great-grandfather, Solomon Yager, was originally a flintlock musket …
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military has begun shipping equipment and winding down contracts with local service providers ahead of the May 1 start of the final phase of its military pullout from Afghanistan, a U.S. Defense Department official said Thursday. The pullout under U.S. President Joe Biden marks the end of America’s longest …
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LONDON — British authorities apologized Thursday after an investigation found that at least 161,000 mostly African and Indian military service personnel who died during World War I weren’t properly honored due to “pervasive racism.” It said that number could possibly range up to 350,000. The investigation found that those service members were either not commemorated …
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