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Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Military's Independent News Source: Sunday, January 10, 2010
Top headlines from Stars and Stripes. See the rest of today's news at www.stripes.com Army band stays busy putting smiles on Korean audiences' faces The concert at Kosin University in Busan, South Korea, was the Eighth U.S. Army Band's last full-band concert of a year in which they played about 300 jobs, big and small. Christmas terror suspect pleads not guilty A plea of not guilty was entered on behalf of a young Nigerian man on Friday during his first public court appearance to face charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Overseas military will have to register again to get ballots this year Changes in federal law mandate that voters must request a new absentee ballot each year in order to participate in state and federal elections, instead of the previous practice of requiring new applications only every few years. DOD to pick up the pace getting M-ATVs to Afghanistan Only a relative few MRAP-All Terrain Vehicles have made it to Afghanistan since they began arriving in October, but that's about to change. "It's our goal that come this spring, we'll be sending over about 500 a month," said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell. Slain veteran's family leaves U.S. as wife's visa is set to expire Robin Ferschke is calling it the second loss of her son. "I feel devastated," the mother of a Marine killed in Iraq 17 months ago said Friday from her home in Maryville, Tenn., four days after her daughter-in-law and year-old grandson departed for Okinawa. At Grafenwöhr, no relief in sight for housing crunch Despite an off-post housing crunch that forces some soldiers to live up to 45 minutes from their offices in Grafenwöhr and Vilseck, scores of homes sit empty at the Army's new military housing area at Netzaberg. Japan's Futenma relocation chief tours Okinawa NAHA, Okinawa — Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima urged Japan's chief cabinet secretary Saturday to back the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma aircraft and activities off his island.... Aircraft with advantages, or the next generation of wasted money? The Air Force is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on two fighter jets — the F-22 and the F-35 — that probably will never be used to support troops on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. Guam residents voice concerns about military's expansion plans MANGILAO, Guam — Hundreds of people on Guam showed up at public hearings last week to question, protest or try to understand a proposed U.S. military expansion that would add more than 9,000 tr... Hundreds of flights canceled in storm-swept Germany Germans faced the cancellation of hundreds of flights Saturday as fresh snow blew in from the south, and Britons shivered through the country's longest cold snap in three decades as icy weather maintained its grip on Europe.
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