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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. CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa Brent Cook needed more bodies for his Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill program at Camp Foster’s Kubasaki High School. Students there, deprived during the coronavirus pandemic of their regular extracurricular outlets football, volleyball, basketball and the rest needed something, anything, to do and a team to bond with. That proved beneficial for Cook, who coached the Kubasaki Dragon Battalion to top honors at the Far East Drill Competition in December, according to results announced last week. The drill team took four of five events in the virtual competition.
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.
By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 19, 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. YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – A Defense Department high school on Okinawa closed its doors this week after three “members of our Kubasaki High School family” tested positive for the coronavirus over the long holiday weekend, principal James Strait said in a Facebook post Monday. “In accordance with public health’s guidance, a negative COVID test will be required for all students to return to school on Monday, Jan. 25,” he said in the post, referring to the respiratory disease caused by the virus.
By JENNIFER H. SVAN | 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. RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany Alongside a sign that said “COVID VACCINE,” a line of about 50 people waited outside the Southside Fitness Center Annex early Friday in freezing temperatures before the doors opened at 9. Air Force medical officials said they expected to vaccinate several hundred people during the three-hour shot clinic, which was open on a walk-in basis to select personnel.