Stripes Pacific Headlines

Colleen Shine was only 8 when her father’s jet was shot out of the sky over Vietnam in 1972. Lt. Col. Anthony Shine was declared missing in action after the A-7D reconnaissance jet he was piloting disappeared over jagged mountains near the border of Laos.

Ken Stumpf and Don Jenkins appear to have little in common. But bravery, it would seem, comes packaged in many different forms.

It’s been 14 months since a massive tsunami swept over parts of Japan, but federal officials still lack a comprehensive plan for detecting and disposing of the resulting debris that is expected to make landfall on the West Coast by sometime next year, a Senate panel was told Thursday.

The Japanese government on Friday asked the country to reduce energy consumption this summer as the nation’s nuclear power plants remain offline in the aftermath of last year’s nuclear meltdown.

A U.S. soldier will appeal his conviction on charges he raped a South Korean teenager, according to the 8th Army.

A “steering malfunction” aboard the beleaguered USS Essex is believed to be the culprit behind the ship’s at-sea collision with a fleet replenishment oiler Wednesday morning, Navy officials said.

In a country where the U.S. military lives by the motto “ready to fight tonight,” the families of servicemembers in South Korea are asked always to be prepared to take flight at very short notice..

Eighth-graders in Department of Defense Education Activity schools scored higher on average than their peers in stateside public schools on a national standardized science test administered in spring 2011, DODEA officials announced this week.

For the nearly 900 troops stationed at K-16 Air Base, buying groceries has been a logistical headache, since the nearest commissary is located 45 minutes to an hour away at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan.

Okinawa marked the 40th anniversary of its reversion to Japanese sovereignty on Tuesday amid ongoing unease about the heavy presence of the US military on the island.

U.S. taxpayers will shoulder most of the cost for a planned relocation of Okinawa-based Marines, according to the agreement reached with Japan last month, but the stated $8.6 billion price tag for the move is not yet firm and does not take into account the entire project.

The former commander of the destroyer USS Cowpens was fired earlier this year for having an adulterous affair, according to a Navy investigation report.

If you’re looking for a souvenir, Mardi Gras has its beads, Florida has its Mickey Mouse ears, and South Korea has ... barbed wire?

Maj. Gen. John W. Raymond, vice commander of Fifth Air Force and deputy commander of 13th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan, has been promoted to director of plans and policy at U.S. Strategic Command at Offut Air Force Base, Neb.

The Gurkhas' proud two-century tradition with the British army is under siege. Some in the Nepalese government object to the Gurkhas being hired guns and are proposing to ban the practice, just as the British government makes cuts in defense spending.

Rear Adm. Thomas H. Copeman III will replace Vice Adm. Richard W. Hunt as commander of Naval Surface Forces and Pacific Fleet Naval Surface Forces, according to a Defense Department release.

Saundra Holland said she lost her breath when she first learned her uncle, consider missing in action from the Korean War for the past 62 years, had been identified.

A South Korean government-funded human rights group has released a series of raw firsthand accounts of North Korea's political prison camps, Seoul's first comprehensive attempt to catalog the atrocities that Pyongyang denies take place.

A team of POW/MIA investigators arrived in Guam this week to search for information on Americans who remain missing from World War II.

Chief Petty Officer JoseJoewey Madrigal Butor, an aviation boatswain’s mate-fuels, was found floating in the water near Berth 2 by the Japanese Coast Guard about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, base officials said. He was 50.