Guard, Reserve and active-duty units with a Pacific focus are taking priority, officials said. How would commissaries, exchanges and overseas shipments of household goods be affected by potentially massive American port strikes? The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu. A local media activist said the motorcycle the senior leader was riding was hit by two missiles. The Abraham Lincoln is outfitted with F-35C and F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets and will replace the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. The radar system combines five legacy platforms into once piece of gear and is part of efforts to make Marine littoral regiments agile and autonomous. “Don’t think that the TR-3 problems are over,” said Gen. James Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The current version of the launcher creates a bright flash and large smoke cloud when fired, potentially giving away the position of Marines. In a memo obtained by Defense News, a Marine Corps squadron commander raises the alarm about the quality of Lockheed Martin's new F-35C jets. The failed strike marks the first time since Feb. 4 that Iranian-backed militias have attacked a U.S. facility in Iraq or Syria. Load More