Published Jan. 15 in Il Manifesto. Translation: John Catalinotto. At 2:20 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1991 (Gulf time), U.S. helicopters penetrated Iraqi territory, destroying two radar stations with Hellfire missiles. Immediately afterwards, Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-117A stealth fighters struck other nerve centers, blinding the air defenses of the capital.…
By KENT HARRIS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 20, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy Middle school students returned to classrooms at Aviano for the first time in two months on Tuesday, leaving less than 200 Department of Defense Education Activity students who are required to learn from home in Italy. That number should shrink further as a kindergarten class in Vicenza transitions from virtual learning next week and high school students at Aviano go back to classes Feb. 1, DODEA-Europe spokesman Stephen Smith said.
1 KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – When he first started working at Leghorn Army Depot for the U.S. Army in 1984, he and his fellow employees had less than 100 pieces of rolling stock they worked with, and the mechanical condition of the equipment was not their responsibility.
Now, 36 years later – at that same Army depot in Livorno, Italy – the Army Field Support Battalion-Africa deputy support operations officer says his team is responsible for over 3,000 pieces of equipment, to include their serviceability and operational condition.
“We’ve grown tremendously,” said Massimo Carpina, who started out as a care and preservation servicer and rose through the ranks to eventually become one of AFSBn-Africa’s senior leaders.
these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. reporter: what is a rip current? it s a channel of water pulls out to sea, too much water close to the shore, rip current will pull you out to sea, it s gravity. rip current will pull you out 20 to 150 yards at eight to ten miles an hour. reporter: we saw a lot of people out on the beach yesterday, no one was allowed in the water. the life guards made sure no one got in with the concern about rip currents. george howell for us this morning, thank you. we ll continue to check in with you throughout the morning to get updates. let s go tote rob
to earle i start. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and it s expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. it s also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnn s rob marciano has been tracking the storm from the weather center. cnn s george howell is live in georgia. i m assuming that things are only just starting to get bad out there, george? reporter: ashlee , we are expecting to be to be a real soaker. this is going to be the center of the storm. it will move towards the savannah area. just a few days ago the story here was the wind event. a strong wind event that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines. today we are expecting that sustained rain over this area could p