Kosovo Force Regional Command East's Task Force Aviation and multinational partners conducted a downed aircraft exercise near Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, rehearsing search and rescue, medical evacuation and aircraft recovery procedures following a simulated UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter hard landing.

Service members based in Japan will likely see a reduction in their overseas cost-of-living allowance because of a long-term drop in the value of the Japanese yen and a corresponding increase in the value of the dollar.

Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers participated in a ghillie wash training exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., in which they were put through intense physical training in ghillie suits, a garment designed to resemble heavy foliage, grass or terrain.