Pentagon orders shutdown of Stars and Stripes newspaper

[WOPL Sniffer]

We've hit another bump in the road............................ I remember over the years, being out in the field/overseas etc..... Of only having the Stars N Stripes to read. Sux that they have to kill it. RIP Stars N Stripes

 

[Bradrock]

I'd be surprised if the President let that happen.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

he may have ordered it.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Stars and Stripes: Trump orders famed US military newspaper to shut


this is what the BBC is saying

 

[Gepetto]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-star-and-stripes-newspaper/ar-BB18IMxI?pfr=1

 

[Wheel-right]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-star-and-stripes-newspaper/ar-BB18IMxI?pfr=1

That is good news... but it isn't like Trump ever read one while in the service.

 

[NavLinear]

For me it was either Stars and Stripes or Italian porn. Humm.

 

[laatsch55]

That is good news... but it isn't like Trump ever read one while in the service.

Nor did Biden..

 

[mlucitt]

I remember reading the mix of official and unofficial stories in Star & Stripes during my three-year tour in Japan. It was the next best thing to receiving a month-old local paper from back home. I'm glad we still have this paper that has been in print since the Civil War.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Back in the 80's, it's all we had on the Carrier.......... No internet, no bowling alley, and mail was hit or miss when we were steaming.

 

[mlucitt]

At least you guys had the Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) flights, we had a broken helicopter and no way to get mail, movies, or melted ice cream...

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

It's a long way for a COD when we never pulled in anywhere especially my first cruise. Halfway to Lebanon, we turned around and went to Grenada, spent a week circling the island then back to Lebanon, did the Ditch (Suez Canal) into the Indian ocean, spent 30 hours in Singapore, then back to Lebanon....... We left a couple hundred sailors in Singapore since we were supposed to be there for 5 days...... The only other port we hit was The "ArmPit" of the med (Naples) on our way back to Norfolk all that for 8 month Cruise................................. Turned around 4 months later to do it all again......

 

[J!m]

The good old days...