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Pfc. Jeremy Monteleone spends time with his daughter, Jaden, in their home on Rose Barracks, Germany, on Aug. 25, 2013, the day before he deployed to Afghanistan for a seven-month tour .PHOTOS BY JOSHUA L. DEMOTTS/Stars and Stripes

Jeremy holds Jaden in the early hours of Aug. 26,2013, as he prepares to leave . Jeremy’s mother, Kate Monteleone, back left, came to say goodbye and to help Jeremy’s eight-months-pregnant wife, Tiana Musson, right.

Jeremy hugs Tiana as they say their goodbyes

at Rose Barracks .

Jeremy Skypes with Tiana on Oct. 13, 2013, from his room on Kandahar Air Field .

Back at Rose Barracks, a collage that Tiana and Jaden made counts down the days until Jeremy’s return and lists daily happenings.

BY JOSHUA L. DEMOTTS AND STEVEN BEARDSLEY

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Seven months after leav-ing his family for deploy-ment to Afghanistan, Pfc. Jeremy Monteleone

embraced them again, pulling his daughter into his arms and cradling, for the first time, his 7-month-old son.

Like other soldiers who filed into a banner-strung gymnasium April 8 to the cheers of family and friends, the 24-year-old infantryman from Chicago will now try easing back into family life, a readjustment after more than half a year away at war.

The deployment was largely quiet for his unit, a troop that patrolled the long stretches of road connecting outlying bases to their own, a large logistics and command hub. Yet the days brought their own intensity, as soldiers trained and prepared as if every trip outside base gates could turn into a fight.

Now Monteleone looks for-ward to the coming weeks with his wife, Tiana, and his children, Jaden, 5, and son Emrick, a family he’s seen only via Skype over the past seven months. He hopes to travel, and he’s already thinking about the things he couldn’t do or get in Afghanistan.

“I was so excited, everyone was talking about what they were going to eat and drink first,” he said last weekend. “I even told Tiana, ‘I want to sit down and take it all in, just take it all in.’ ”

After the reunion will come the new routine; Monteleone fell back into formation, returning to training and saying goodbye to fellow soldiers moving on to other units. He’ll re-enlist, he said, and he looks forward to working with a new first sergeant.

Although he didn’t get the combat badge or the experience many soldiers hope for when deploying, he said he appreciates the experience.

“We are always told 1 percent of the American population joins the military, and 1 percent of those people go infantry, and even fewer of those deploy — ‘Congratulations you are a select few,’ ” he said. “Honestly, at first I thought those were just blank words, but really it does make me feel better, because it’s true. I may not have that combat badge, but I have a deployment patch.”

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MILITARY

BY MEREDITH TIBBETTS

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ARLINGTON, Va. — De-spite being teenagers, despite moving more than any kid should be asked to and despite facing the stress of a parent deployed, a group of military youths have shown what dedi-cation and determination can accomplish.

Five teens, one represent-ing each service branch, were honored last week as the Military Child of the Year by Operation Homefront, a non-profit that provides financial aid and other assistance to the families of servicemembers.

The teens have different passions, but two things in common: a high GPA and a commitment to community.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Poison lead sing-er Bret Michaels — himself a military brat — spoke during the event of the sacrifices military children have to make and how each honoree not only rose to the occasion, but exemplified leadership and achievement.

This is the sixth year that Operation Homefront has presented the Military Child of the Year awards. Each honoree receives $5,000 and a trip to Washington. The teens are selected from a pool of a nearly 1,000 nominees.

“When we look at what the military has done over the past 12 years, it’s not just about the men and women who deploy. It’s about the families they leave behind and about the children who support their deployed parents that actually

make us strong,” Dempsey said after the event.

Representing each branch were:

� Army: Kenzi Hall, 16, liv-ing in California, founded the nonprofit Bratpack 11, which grants “big dream wishes” to military children who have had a parent injured or killed in combat. She has already sent one family for a five-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland.

� Marine Corps: Michael-Logan Burke Jordan, 15, of Hawaii, with a 3.9 GPA, founded The Logan’s Heroes Foundation, which promotes

the spirit of volunteerism and helps wounded warriors. He was diagnosed at age 3 with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.

� Navy: Ryan Patrick Cur-tin, 18, of Texas, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for amassing more than 500 volunteer hours. In August, he had a major chest operation to correct a birth defect and his Eagle Scout Project was managing 57 Marine, Navy, Boy Scout and civilian volunteers to con-struct a staircase and deck for Marine Aviation Training Support Group 22.

� Air Force: Gage Alan Dabin, 18, of Alaska, with a 4.0 GPA. Volunteers with Anchor-age’s Promise: Youth Advisory Board and created a citywide campaign, Random Texts of Kindness, to combat bullying.

� Coast Guard: Juanita Lindsay Collins, 17, of Florida, with a 4.5 cumulative weight-ed GPA, has completed 300 hours of volunteer service and was president of her junior and senior class as well as the National Honor Society. She was also a 2013 Anne Frank Humanitarian Award winner.

Combined, they have had at least one parent deployed for

131 months, they’ve moved 30 times and they represent 2,325 hours of volunteer service.

“I think, to be a military brat, it comes with challeng-es,” Kenzi said. “It really at times pushes you to your limit. You grow attached to a place and then you have to pick up and leave again. It’s difficult. I don’t think a lot of people real-ize the sacrifice that military families make as well.”

“It gives you a new perspec-tive on life,” Michael-Logan added. “You get to look at life a different way. You have the pride of your mother and father deployed or in the military.”

All five teens credited their parents for the inspiration to volunteer and to contribute so much to society.

Michaels had been asking for years to come to the event, so he was thrilled to be able to be there to support the military and the troops. He donated an additional $2,000 to each teen being honored.

“I’m thankful for our free-dom and to all the men and women, and especially their kids. Never forget, like Opera-tion Homefront, it’s not just the battle on the battlefield, it’s the battle beyond the battlefield that happens as well. And I think that it is really important — really important — that we take care of and respect our veterans when they return. And their families, their wives, their husbands, their kids,” Michaels said.

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ARLINGTON, Va. — In a night to honor five extraordinary military children, Gen. Martin Dempsey took a moment to entertain the crowd with a rendition of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”

Operation Homefront was honoring the Military Child of the Year from

each service branch last week, and Dempsey was a key speaker, along with glam metal band Poison’s front man, Bret Michaels.

“I have to do one other thing because I’ve done it every year, and that is, I have to sing something. I would like to make note of the fact that the famous Bret Michaels was so intimidated by me, that he chose not to sing tonight. He was actually going to sing ‘Every

Rose has Its Thorn,’ but I said, ‘Don’t do it, man, because I’m going to get up there after you,’ ” Dempsey joked.

“If you had sung up here, I wouldn’t be talking crap right now, but since you didn’t, it opened the door,” he

added.Dempsey said Greenwood’s song

was one of the most inspirational songs he has heard, which was why he chose it. He said he hesitated because of how emotional it was, but asked the crowd — and Michaels — to help him.

They happily obliged.

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From left, Poison lead singer Bret Michaels stands with Military Child of the Year honorees Juanita Lindsay Collins, Kenzi Hall, Ryan Patrick Curtin, Gage Alan Dabin and Michael-Logan Burke Jordan last week.

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How one Iraqi boy dodged extremists and came to serve in the US military

After U.S. forces pulled out in December 2011, many were left to dodge extremists looking to kill “traitors” who had worked for the American military while trying to navigate the bureaucrat-ic process to get U.S. visas.

Mansure knows some didn’t make it. But his story has a happy ending. Now a private first class, the hulking 6-foot, 3-inch, 24-year-old is having a big impact on fellow Marines in Iwakuni, where he has been stationed for about three months.

“He’s an outstanding Marine,” said Mansure’s boss, Chief Warrant Officer Jana Tang. “I know he has inspired a lot of Marines in the barracks and the command itself.”

From bad to worse in IraqMansure grew up poor in a large

family that shared a single-room house made of brick and mud north-east of Baghdad. There was a stove in the corner, a rug on the floor and little else.

His father, disabled in fighting Iran as part of the Iraqi army, relied on govern-ment assistance to survive.

In 2000, their house and its contents mysteriously burned while they were out for the evening. To help his family, Mansure worked manual labor jobs starting at age 12 while going to school full-time.

“We ended up

with nothing,” he said. “I said, ‘Can life get any worse than this?’ ”

It turns out, it would. Three years later, the American military in-

vaded Iraq and ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. Iraq fell into chaos.

Jobs were scarce, and while American dollars flowed into the country to rebuild and support the fledgling Iraqi government, it became in-creasingly dangerous to work for the Americans. Terrorists were gaining in strength and taking

territory. One day, a 15-year-old Mansure came home to find a note left on their

house that said, “You have 72 hours to leave or

you’re dead.”He had seen proud people murdered who

refused to leave. His family was not

going to make the

same

mistake. So they packed up their furniture and left, bouncing around before finally settling in another simple mud house.

In 2007, Mansure graduated from high school. The 17-year-old could not afford to go to college, so he decided to join the Iraqi army. Mansure had to borrow money to pay for ID cards and to push through his paperwork. He desperately needed the $400 per month so he could pay off his family’s debts, yet his father refused to sign the paperwork. The man processing Mansure’s application signed him up without the permis-sion, saying he was “going to get killed anyway.”

Mansure went through 2½ months of basic training. He wore the Iraqi uniform, he ate with his fellow troops, he drilled, he practiced shoot-ing, only to find that a clerk had mistakenly for-gotten to enter his name in a database to be sent to a unit. He was excused and could go home, he was told, or he could protest and go to jail.

He tried to stay optimistic. “God has a pur-pose,” he remembered thinking. “Everything happens for a reason.”

As he went back to manual labor and the family’s debts ballooned, terrorists took town after nearby town, finally surrounding Mansure’s village.

Forced to protect himself and his fami-ly, Mansure was exposed to the

horrors of terrorism and war. One day, he said,

he saw a preg-nant woman

whose stom-ach had been cut open and her baby

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan

W hile his fellow Marine recruits cried and uri-nated in their trousers in the face of Parris Island’s tough-as-nails drill instructors, Pvt. Mansure had never been more thrilled.

A drill instructor barked at him to run.“My pleasure,” he enthusiastically replied.He was told to do pushups. “I will do this all day long,” he recalled thinking. “I’m

like, ‘This is awesome. I have a bed to sleep in, food; I get to work out all day.’ ”

Plus, he had been spared from the Islamic terror-ists hunting him in his native Iraq. Mansure — whose name has been changed by Stars and Stripes due to safety concerns for his family in Iraq — was so happy to accept the physical and mental punishment that he got in trouble for not looking depressed enough, the Marine said last month from his duty station near Hiroshima in southeastern Japan, where he works in administration.

His story is similar to that of thousands of Iraqis who worked for U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion.

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The terrorists cut electricity and water to the village. They were under siege.

The American military would not help because they believed it to be sectarian and not the work of al-Qaida, Mansure said.

“It was like a prison,” he said.Mansure said that he had al-

ways wanted to learn English, so he picked up an Arabic-to-English dictionary. He learned the alpha-bet, some verbs, suffixes. He tried to memorize 15 words per day. He started making sentences.

Later that year, the Americans came and routed the terrorists from the area, but that didn’t end the problems facing the country. Man-sure said they found themselves in the midst of a civil war.

“Everyone [was] trying to kill everyone,” he said.

Fateful visitSoon after, an uncle whose neigh-

bor was a translator for the Ameri-cans came to visit. Mansure asked him to help him find a job with the military. His uncle refused, saying Mansure would be killed.

“Really, you think I will die?” he recalled saying to his uncle. “You don’t think I die every day seeing my family live like this?”

His uncle relented but said he didn’t want to be blamed when Mansure was killed.

Mansure had just turned 18 when he met with the translator. He was told to proceed to an American forward operating base called War-horse. But there was a catch — the base was surrounded by extremists who targeted everyone coming and going from the base.

Mansure devised a plan. He jumped out in front of a column of Iraqi troops in armored vehicles on their way to the base. The gunner in the lead vehicle threatened to shoot him. He explained that his brother had been arrested by the Ameri-cans. He asked for a ride.

When Mansure got to the base, barely speaking any English, he asked a screener about a job. He was told he would have to come back four more times for interviews.

The interviews were held on Saturdays, and when they were

completed, he would face deserted streets. Anyone leaving the base could easily be seen and shot by the extremists.

Mansure kept hitching rides on Iraqi military convoys. He would arrive Friday night for his inter-views and sleep in a carpet near the gate. It was bitterly cold at night.

After the final interview, he was hired.

Over the next two years, Mans-ure’s English improved. He went from working the gate at FOBs to going out on important missions, raids, ambushes and searches for weapons caches. He said he dodged IEDs and bullets, working 15 to 18 hours per day, seven days a week.

“I had seen what the terrorists had done,” he said. “Now I get to hurt them.”

After every mission, he made time to hit his beloved gym.

His family rarely saw him, and knowing that terrorists were hunt-ing him, often thought he was dead. From time to time he would go outside the wire to surprise his fam-ily with a visit. One time, Mansure, who had never held $500 in his hand at one time, brought home $2,800. He took his sisters to Baghdad to the fanciest clothing store he could find.

“I told them to buy the most ex-pensive thing in there,” he said. “I said buy everything. … I was really, really happy. This was a dream I had been thinking of.”

In 2010, on one visit home, he said he was arrested by corrupt Iraqi police.

“They said I betrayed my coun-try,” Mansure recalled. “They hand-cuffed my hands behind my back and said, ‘Where are the Americans now?’ … The three cops were beat-ing me with their fists and kicking me. They said, ‘You’re not getting out of here alive.’ ”

He said they put him in a cell with al-Qaida terrorists. He survived that encounter thanks to American inter-

vention, but said he would later sleep in his parents’ house clutching an AK-47. He knew the threat was real.

Coming to AmericaArmy 1st Lt. Thomas Ormsby met

Mansure in 2011 as U.S. forces were preparing to depart Iraq for good. A veteran of multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Ormsby, a self-described “door kicker” and “trigger squeezer,” felt little sym-pathy for the Iraqi people. Yet he was impressed by Mansure, who was translating on convoy escorts. When he went out, nothing bad ever happened. He was self-taught, driven and spent more time with his American counterparts than fellow Iraqi translators.

“He was an integral part of the team,” Ormsby said by phone last month. “Here was a really good kid who was going to slip through the cracks.”

Ormsby heard that terrorists pledged to kill Mansure, so he began to vet him to make sure he wasn’t a security threat. The men bonded over faith — albeit different denominations.

When Ormsby was leaving for Kuwait, he tried to see if members of the Air Force would continue to help Mansure, but they refused. Ormsby left but was more resolved than ever. He told Mansure to stay alive and he would work to get him to America.

Mansure said he had applied for a visa in 2009 . He stopped working on base at the end of 2011. The Ameri-cans were finally leaving, and he would have to fend for himself.

“That was a reality check for me,” he recalled. “If the U.S. leaves, nobody is going to protect you.”

The translator went back to work doing manual labor, then became an AK-47-toting translator/mercenary for a British company building an oil port. Finally, an old contact hooked him up with a job translating at the U.S. Embassy in May 2012. Mansure watched his back and got occasional emails from Ormsby, who was work-ing with lawyers to expedite the process.

“Are you alive?” Ormsby would ask.

In June 2012, Mansure heard his visa had been granted. Ormsby arranged for him to live with his

family in Kentucky. Five days before he left for the

U.S., Mansure visited his family. He gave them $10,000 he had saved and said goodbye forever.

A new lifeIn the states, the former Iraqi

translator found life to be safer but still difficult. He worked on Ormsby’s parents’ farm and did odd jobs as he endeared himself to their family, Ormsby said. The family helped him prepare for tests to join the Marines.

Mansure failed several times before he was successful. But he said he refused to give up. He had seen the Marines take the fight to the enemy in Iraq. He said he wanted to be among the best warriors in the world.

Mansure became an American citizen on July 2, 2013, the day before he graduated from boot camp. He said it was the happiest day of his life.

After a lifetime of hard knocks, combat missions, IEDs and flying bullets, Mansure requested a job in administration so he could gain a sense of normalcy he had never known. He wanted to be clean all day, to wear crisp cammies — and he wanted to be able to keep his regimented gym schedule.

He was sent to Japan, where his wisdom is having an effect on his Marine brothers and sisters.

Nearly everyone in his office is on a special diet and gym program, thanks to their new “older brother,” Tang said. Physical training bench-marks like pullups are improving by leaps and bounds.

He walks through the halls of the headquarters building at MCAS Iwakuni as a warm yet imposing presence.

“You need to hit the gym. Oorah,” he tells a Marine lance corporal with a smile.

Mansure hopes to stay in the Corps for eight years and then work for the CIA, FBI or homeland security. He hopes to put his sisters through college someday.

“I always set the goal and I work for it,” he said. “The money I’ve made here is the easiest money I’ve made in my life.”[email protected]

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I always set a goal and I work for it. The money I’ve made here is theeasiest money I’ve made in my life.

Pfc. MansureMarine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan

They said I betrayed my country. They handcuffed my hands behind my back and said, ‘Where are the Americans now?’ … The three cops were beating me with their fists and kicking me. They said, ‘You’re not getting out of here alive.’

Pfc. Mansurerecalling being arrested by corrupt Iraq police during a trip home to visit his family

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BY ERIK SLAVIN

Stars and Stripes

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Japan is poised to introduce a plan that would allow its forces to defend allies for the first time in the post-World War II era, even as polls indicate public opposition to a reinterpretation of the nation’s pacifist constitution.

Advisers to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government say the legal maneu-vers to end Japan’s ban on engaging in collective self-defense will begin before the end of the national Diet session on June 22 despite recent speculation that doubts from the public and some lawmakers within Abe’s ruling coalition would force delays.

Under current Japanese law, Japan cannot fight back if a U.S. Navy ship with which it is sailing comes under fire unless the Japanese ship is also attacked. Nor can Japan use its Self-Defense Forces — a quasi-military the size of Britain’s — to rescue Japanese aid workers taken hostage in a foreign country.

If ending the ban were just about those two examples, there would be far less controversy. A January Kyodo News poll showed 70 percent approval for aiding Japanese hostages, and the United States enjoys high favorability ratings among Japanese.

Nevertheless, only 29 percent favored lifting the collective self-defense ban when asked the broader question in April by the Asahi Shimbun, which also opposes the government measure in its editorial pages. The unease comes primarily from the worry that it will increase Japan’s chances of fighting for the first time since WWII, possibly in a war that does not directly threaten the country.

Secondarily, many opponents frown on the government’s methods.

The strategyInstead of changing the constitution,

which would require far more effort and a two-thirds majority vote in the Diet, Abe wants to change other laws to reinterpret it.

“How can something regarded as a violation or illegal under the present constitution suddenly be made legal?” Mizuho Fukushima, a Diet upper house member with the Social Democratic Party, told reporters recently. “We be-lieve what is being done by Mr. Abe is basically the destruction of the current constitution.”

Fukushima’s view has been ex-pressed by others among the frag-mented gaggle of opposition parties in the Diet. But most concede that without public uproar or a schism within Abe’s overwhelming majority coalition, he will have the votes to end the ban. Abe already has gone to work on lobbying New Komeito, a small party within his coalition that initially expressed objec-tions, to support his plans.

As of yet, public opposition to ending the ban hasn’t mattered much, either. Abe retains about 60 percent popularity in most polls, despite majority opposi-tion to his policies on defense, restart-ing nuclear reactors and raising taxes.

His “Abenomics” plan to revive Japan’s stagnant economy remains the linchpin of his popularity, coupled with the fact that no other party has effec-tively challenged him. The Democratic Party of Japan scored a measly 5.8 percent approval rating in a March Nik-kei poll — which made it Japan’s most popular opposition party.

Meanwhile, the government will begin its collective self-defense push with a Cabinet resolution and introduc-tion of the issue to the full Diet. The resolution will come after a national security panel finishes its report on legal changes necessary to support a reinterpretation.

“We expect that the panel will submit its report next month,” Takeshi Iwaya, chairman of the ruling Liberal Demo-cratic Party’s security research council, told reporters April 9. “The government will start a full-blown discussion on the issue only after the report is submitted. However, the LDP is already discussing the issue in a forum.”

The law authorizing the Self-Defense Forces and others would then need amendment and approval by the Diet, where the LDP holds a commanding majority.

Shinichi Kitaoka, deputy chairman of the Advisory Panel on Reconstruc-

tion of the Legal Basis for Security, told Stars and Stripes that the changes to the Self-Defense Forces law might not be ready by Dec. 31 but shouldn’t be much later than that.

The motiveChina’s claims on Japanese-admin-

istered territory, as well as its disputes over islands in the South China Sea with Japanese and U.S. allies, play a big part in Abe’s reasoning. So does Japan’s desire to pull its weight in United Na-tions-approved operations.

However, Abe also wanted the ban on fighting alongside allies lifted in 2006, during his aborted, one-year term as prime minister — well before China’s forces became more assertive over disputed territory.

Some supporters of collective self-defense point to the embarrassment of Japan’s 2004 deployment to Iraq on humanitarian and reconstruction mis-sions. Because they weren’t allowed to fire on anyone, Japan’s forces stayed mostly on their base. When moving, they had to be guarded by the Dutch and small African countries, among others, Kitaoka said.

“Japan has a much bigger military than them and still they were defended by them — that’s ridiculous,” Kitaoka said.

Japan’s alliance with the United States works in part, Navy officials have said, because the overwhelming advantage U.S. forces have in offen-sive capability allows Japan to play a complementary defensive role. But Japanese government officials say smaller countries sometimes balk at being paired with Japan in internation-al operations, knowing they may not get support in a potential firefight.

Not surprisingly, China has reacted negatively to Japan’s ambitions.

So has South Korea, where a disputed island territory and belief that Japan’s

government is unapologetic over Korea’s suffering during WWII have made Abe about as popular as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

It’s a different story in Southeast Asia, where countries like the Philip-pines continue to face standoffs at sea with the Chinese over disputed territory. Southeast Asia also widely welcomed a recent decision by Japan that would allow it to export arms for the first time in the post-WWII era.

The United States, which has been working to strengthen its military al-liance with the same Southeast Asian nations, also gave Abe’s plans to end the collective self-defense ban its approval.

“We welcome Japan’s efforts to play a more proactive role in the alliance, including by re-examining the inter-pretation of its constitution relating to the right of collective self-defense,” De-fense Secretary Hagel said in a written response to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper just before his April visit to Tokyo.

There is some historical irony in the U.S. stance. The United States wrote Japan’s 1947 constitution, and in it stated that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”

That constitutional passage has become part of Japan’s national identity — supporters and opponents of the col-lective self-defense ban largely agree on that.

But where ban supporters see a slippery slope to war, those who want to ease the restriction say that identity will keep Japan from using the right to collective defense in all but a handful of narrowly construed circumstances.

“All countries in the world are ready to exercise this right except Japan,” Kitaoka said. “This is a very modest step.”[email protected]:@eslavin_stripes

Despite opposition, Japan’s PM presses ahead with a plan to expand use of military

Seeking self-defense

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense

Force destroyer Takanami, left,

sails alongside the USS McCampbell on March 9 in the

Pacific Ocean. CHRIS CAVAGNARO/

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My husband and I traveled to Ohio this month for a friend’s retire-

ment ceremony at Wright-Pat-terson Air Force Base. It was a journey through military family history .

The retirement celebra-tion was a toast to our friend’s history and his future. Funny stories were told. Colleagues spoke of his leadership and kindness. His family’s military life fl ashed before our eyes in a slide show of memories.

Afterward, we visited the National Museum of the Air Force, also at Wright-Pat, for another trip through history. The hanger-sized exhibit halls contain the saga of fl ight.

The museum is packed with planes, but the vessels I most wanted to see were not for fl ying. In a glass case beside a B-25 is a collection of 80 silver goblets, each engraved with the name of one who offered his life for his country.

Sixteen crews of fi ve men each, who took off on a risky fl ight 72 years ago today: The fi rst bombing of mainland Japan on April 18, 1942, an all but im-possible mission led by Jimmy Doolittle.

Four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the raid was a boost to American morale and a warning to Japan that the sleeping giant was indeed awake. “Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders” became decorated national heroes.

Sixteen B-25 bombers launched from an aircraft car-rier — something never before attempted — in the Pacifi c Ocean. They were to bomb key targets in and around Tokyo and fl y toward China while their fuel lasted. The crewmen, all volunteers, knew it was likely a one-way mission. They went anyway, and Doolittle promised the men a party when it was over.

Three were killed on the mission. Eight were captured by the Japanese. Three of those men were executed; the rest were held through the end of the war. One died in captiv-ity. Many of the surviving raid-ers went on to serve on other battlefronts, and 11 more gave their lives. Sixty-two survived the war.

In 1945, Doolittle was fi nally

able to fulfi ll his promise. He gave a party in December, where the returning Raiders raised a toast to those who didn’t return. The gathering and the toast became a yearly tradition on the anniversary of the raid. Each Raider Reunion took place in a different city, and included a local charity benefi t.

The silver goblets were pre-sented to the Raiders in 1959 by the city of Tucson, Ariz. At following reunions, the goblets

of those who had died since the previ-ous reunion were turned upside down. Each cup is engraved twice with the name of a Raider, right side up and upside

down, so that when the cup is upended, the name can

still be read.Four cups remain upright,

but today there is no reunion. In 2013, the remaining Raiders, all in their nineties, decided that reunion would be their last and planned a fi nal toast for Veterans Day at the National Museum of the Air Force.

In November, joined by dignitaries, families and friends, three of the four living Raiders — Richard Cole, David Thatcher and Edward Saylor — gathered. Robert Hite was too ill to attend.

Cole opened a long-reserved bottle of cognac and the trio lifted their silver cups one last time. “To those we lost on the mission and those who have passed away since: Thank you, and may they rest in peace,” said Cole, offering the toast.

The planes in the museum carried many heroes on many missions. The silver goblets carry memories of smiling faces, acts of leadership and sacrifi ce. They represent friendship and a bond that out-lasted war, hardship and loss.

Whatever cup you lift today, remember the Raiders, and raise it high for all who gave a life or a lifetime in military service.Terri Barnes writes Spouse Calls weekly for Stars and Stripes.

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Raise your glass in honorof Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders

BY PATRICK DICKSON

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Hol-lywood is going to war again, and this time, Brad Pitt is in charge.

Pitt will star as Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former com-mander of all Western forces in Afghanistan, in a film adaptation of “The Operators,” the book that chronicles the rise and fall of McChrystal and, according to its cover, the “wild and terrifying inside story of America’s war in Afghanistan.”

No production date has been set, but director David Michôd, who helmed the 2010 crime drama “Animal King-dom,” will direct. Pitt’s Plan B company will produce “The Operators”; it also produced last year’s best-picture Oscar winner, “12 Years a Slave.”

Pitt is no stranger to the war film genre; he starred in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglori-ous Basterds” and this year will star in “Fury” as “a battle-hardened Army ser-geant named Wardaddy” who commands a Sherman tank

and crew behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany.

McChrystal, the blunt-speaking Special Forces operator, took command in summer 2009 and soon after recommended a troop surge to turn the tide against a resur-gent Taliban.

In 2010, freelance writer Michael Hastings penned a Rolling Stone magazine article called “The Runaway Gener-

al,” in which McChrystal and his staff mocked Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden and several other senior civilian govern-ment officials. McChrystal tendered his resignation before the leaked article was published. Hastings, who also wrote “The Operators,” was killed in a single-car accident in Los Angeles in [email protected]:@StripesDCchief

Brad Pitt to play Stanley McChrystal in war movie

Brad Pitt, left, will play former U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, in “The Operators.”

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Sailor, Marine sea pay set to increase May 1

The approved boost to sea pay for sailors and Marines serving aboard ships will take effect May 1, the Navy announced Monday.

Sailors and Marines could

see as much as a 25 percent increase in the monthly sti-pend, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in a news re-lease, to help fill thousands of critical positions at sea that typically involve frequent, long deployments.

This is the first increase in sea pay in more than a decade

and was initially expected to take effect this summer.

The adjustment is aimed at keeping pace with the dollar’s inflation rate since October 2001. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.32 is needed today to buy what $1 bought in October 2001. From staff reports

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