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Kubasaki's Dylan Canlas drives for a shot against Taipei American during Sunday's Taipei Basketball Exchange boys game. The Tigers won 72-58; the Dragons split their two games with the Tigers. DAVE ORNAUER/STARS AND STRIPES
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Taipei gives Okinawa teams a new challenge

What a change an opponent makes. Kadena’s girls basketball team won its first four games against Okinawa-based American and international school foes by an average of 37½ points.
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Boys Basketball: Kubasaki boys enjoy breakout quarter

It took more than two seasons after sitting out 2016-17 with a damaged ankle, but Dylan Canlas finally enjoyed a breakout performance in a truly breakout quarter for Kubasaki’s boys basketball team.
Photos by Cpl. Christopher A. Madero, U.S Marine Corps
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Lester students sit down with sumo wrestlers as teachers hit the ring

Living in Japan provides the opportunity to learn about and honor the various aspects of Japanese culture, like sumo wrestling.
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Parenting and teen stress

Teens juggle many things: fitting in at school, managing classwork and clubs, the daily tidal wave of hormones, and the ups and downs of high school romances.
Congress in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act killed a Defense Department plan to do away with an upper limit for transferring service members' education benefits to their dependents. PIXABAY
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Congress overrules Pentagon plan to limit service members’ G.I. Bill benefits transfer to dependents

Service members with more than 16 years in the military may continue to transfer their G.I. Bill education benefits to their dependents, according to a Navy Personnel Command directive issued Friday.
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Boys Basketball: Kadena claims regular-season hoops titles

Kadena’s boys won their fourth straight Okinawa regular-season title over Kubasaki while the Panthers girls claimed their 17th straight district title over the Dragons with their latest victories Friday at Kubasaki.
NORFOLK (July 18, 2018) Chief Fire Controlman Robert J. Miller reenlists aboard the USS Wisconsin (BB 64), a retired Iowa-class battleship that is berthed permanently as a museum ship next to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Va. (U.S. Navy photo by Max Lonzanida)
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16-year-mark Cap Removed from GI-Bill Transferability Policy

Sailors who are serving beyond 16 years and meet service-commitment eligibility criteria now retain the option to transfer GI Bill benefits to dependents as outlined in NAVADMIN 006/20 announced Jan. 10.
Sumo wrestler Kotoeko, right, watches as Kotooodutsu high-fives a Lester Middle School student at Camp Lester, Okinawa, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. CARLOS VAZQUEZ/STARS AND STRIPES
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Sumo heavyweights introduce Okinawa middle-schoolers to their time-honored sport

Students at Lester Middle School received some larger than life guests Friday as two sumo wrestlers from the renowned Sadogatake stable in Kyushu stopped by to impart a little Japanese culture.
Kubasaki's Colin Nation does a back toss on Humphreys' Dennis Hernandez in the 180-pound final of the 7th Rumble on the Rock wrestling tournament. Nation won by technical fall 10-0 in 35 seconds and was voted the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. DAVE ORNAUER/STARS AND STRIPES
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Many wrestlers get chance to see what Far East foes look like

The new wrestler from Florida proved to be as solid as his pedigree and reputation.
After seven years on the shelf, the Rumble on the Rock wrestling tournament is back on the Okinawa mats for its seventh iteration. Here in the last Rumble held in February 2013, Micah Lopez of Guam's Father Duenas gets thrown to the mat by Kubasaki's Sho Green in a 158-pound bout. (ADAM FONDREN/SPECIAL TO STRIPES)
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Wrestlers set to Rumble again this weekend

After seven years on the shelf, the Rumble on the Rock wrestling tournament is back on the Okinawa mats, with four regular Far East tournament teams and local Japanese grapplers set for a full day’s action Saturday at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
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Okinawa book by military spouses picture perfect for youngsters

Military spouses Tara Johnson and Courtney Chauvin both fell in love with Okinawa. Neighbors in a Yomitan apartment complex and both mothers of two young children, the two were hoping to find an Okinawan children’s book to carry the memories of the idyllic paradise they called home.
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Ring the bell for ‘20/21: Scholarships for Military Children begins Dec. 16

The Scholarships for Military Children Program for the 2020 – 2021 school year kicks off Dec. 16, marking its 20th year of awarding grants to military families and celebrating the commissary’s role in enhancing their quality of life.
Junior Collin Metcalf has the burden of becoming the third sibling in his family to fill the shoes of the pillar in the center of it all. In Collin's case, filling the shoes of three-time Far East MVP Quintin Metcalf, now on the roster at St. Bonaventure (N.Y.). LILY AUSTINSON/SPECIAL TO STRIPES
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Boys Basketball: Can Humphreys duplicate a perfect season?

After winning all 33 games and a school-first Far East Division I boys basketball title, the question is: Can Humphreys do it all again?
Reigning Far East Division II Tournament Most Valuable Player Chloe Sterling, a sophomore, is back at point guard for defending champion Zama. DAVE ORNAUER/STARS AND STRIPES
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Girls Basketball: Zama has become the leader of the pack

What a difference that first championship season has made for Zama’s girls basketball team.
From two wrestlers two years ago and six last year, Osan's wrestling team now has as many as 26, four of them girls, pradticing in the school cafeteria daily. JESSICA MCCOLLUM/SPECIAL TO STRIPES
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Wrestling: Osan turns back the clock by filling out the lineup

There were just two wrestlers in the Osan practice room two years ago, setting off concerns about an “empty room syndrome” at some of the smaller programs in Korea.
The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center's PCE Division announced that it is now called TEC University, effective Nov. 1, 2019. (U.S. Air National Guard illustration)
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Division of Air National Guard's education center changes its name, direction

The Air National Guard division that manages professional continuing education for thousands of Airmen has changed its name.