The issue involves automatic deductions from troops' Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments when they are stationed overseas. Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975–1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere. At least 31 directed-energy initiatives are underway across the U.S. military, according to the National Defense Industrial Association. It remains unclear whether Australian Lt. Cmdr. Adam Klyne needed a no-shave chit for that beard. The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted combined naval exercises in a show of strength against North Korea. The launch was the North's first this year. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would boost national defenses to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation. North Korea claimed Wednesday to have successfully placed a spy satellite into orbit with its third launch attempt this year. South Korea's top spy agency said the amount would last Moscow's forces about two months in Ukraine, according to a lawmaker briefed on the assessment. South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises. Load More