White House Releases a Three-Year OIF Fact Sheet: In addition to marking the three-year anniversary of the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom in President Bush’s weekly radio address, the White House put out a fact sheet— “Operation Iraqi Freedom: Three Years Later.”
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3