Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines

June 6, 2017     Not enough Marines for permanent South Korean presence, commander says The commander of the small contingent of Marines based in South Korea says the corps does not have enough forces to permanently expand its presence on the divided peninsula.   US increases its special forces in Syria as SDF begins Raqqa offensive U.S.-backed Syrian fighters began pushing into the Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqa on Tuesday, opening a long-anticipated battle that could put American troops closer to the front lines than in any operation in Syria so far, Pentagon officials said.   War-movie adviser looks to troops, vets to fund his directorial debut As an actor and military technical adviser, Dale Dye has been the driving force behind some of the most beloved and revered war epics. Now he wants to step behind the camera.   Lead detected in water at Navy elementary school in Japan Water fixtures at the Navy’s Ikego Elementary School in Japan have again registered high levels of lead, though officials say families thus far appear to be unaffected following voluntary blood testing.   USS Cheyenne makes port call in S. Korea amid tensions with the North The Navy said the 360-foot-long Los Angeles-class submarine was on a routine visit as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific.   Needing troops, Army offers up to $90K bonuses to re-enlist Military officials tell The Associated Press that the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist.   D-Day's hero: Andrew Higgins loved bourbon, cursed a lot and built the boats that won WWII That Andrew Jackson Higgins was able to accomplish what he did — provide U.S. forces with the means to swiftly attack beaches, including on D-Day — despite his personal shortcomings is a testament, historians say, to his relentless talent and creativity as an entrepreneur.   New National WWII Museum exhibit looks at fight on homefront A rusted fragment of the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman's munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.   Army blames pilot error for 2015 helicopter crash in Colorado The Army blames pilot error for the 2015 crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in Colorado that injured four crew members and destroyed the aircraft.   Minister: Canada will build up its military as the US pulls back from world stage Echoing complaints made recently by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's House of Commons that Washington has decided to forfeit its position of leadership on many issues, forcing Canada to invest in its own armed forces to defend liberal democracy.   Advocates denounce VA delays in developing housing for homeless veterans at Calif. site A report from Vets Advocacy, a non-profit group created to oversee the development, accuses the VA of stalling development of a model community for 1,200 homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus.