The aircraft carrier USS George Washington recorded its 200,000th arrested landing Tuesday as it steamed toward the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Members of an Air Force special operations wing based in England paid respects at a memorial honoring a British-led World War II special operations force.
The exercise marked the first time soldiers with 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment fired live rounds from the upgraded Stryker variant on European soil.
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East.