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By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 15, 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. A U.S. airman based in Italy has died because of the coronavirus, family and friends say, which would mark the first active-duty death in the Air Force and the fourth such death among active-duty service members...

By KAT BOUZA | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 6, 2021 As the world was upended in 2020 by the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, the majority of individuals found themselves tasked with learning to live with a “new normal,” adapting daily routines to the restrictions imposed by social distancing. Here at Stars and Stripes, the coronavirus pandemic also dramatically altered the way we deliver news to our audience. Early in the pandemic, Stripes tem...

SAN DIEGO —  A massive fire dooms a warship in San Diego’s waterfront. Training accidents kill 11 in San Clemente Island. Some long deployments come to an end as others are just beginning. These are a few of the stories affecting the San Diego military community in 2020. Underpinning it all is the coronavirus pandemic, which sickened many and strained local military forces as they tried to maintain regular operations. The pandemic tested military leaders and changed day-to-day operation...

SAN DIEGO —  After leaving its home port of San Diego more than two weeks ago, the Navy announced the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has officially begun its second deployment in less than a year. The ship and its more than 5,500 sailors have been operating off the coast of California since leaving its berth at Naval Air Station North Island Dec. 7. It began sailing west on Wednesday, the Navy said in a statement. “We are at the highest state of readiness to support America’s i...

By ANDREW DYER | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: December 24, 2020 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — After leaving its home port of San Diego more than two weeks ago, the Navy announced the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has officially begun its second deployment in less than a year. The ship and its more than 5,500 sailors have been operating off the coast of California since leaving its berth at Naval Air Station North Island Dec. 7. It began sailing wes...

A provision in the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020 designates COVID-19 as a presumptive illness -- a descriptor that paves the way for affected service members or veterans who suffer long-term consequences of the virus to receive compensation and benefits. To be eligible for disability, the individual must have served on active duty for more than 48 hours at one time and developed the illness during service or within 14 days after ...