The issue involves automatic deductions from troops' Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments when they are stationed overseas.
The sea service spent billions of dollars to increase its weapons inventory. Now it has run into a major obstacle.
Gravely used its Phalanx Close-In Weapons System, a cannon that can shoot 4,500 rounds a minute, to take out the Houthi missile.
The missile firing came on the same day that leaders of a militant group directed its members to halt attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria.
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