The 34th annual convention of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. opened this week in Orlando, Fla. Still living are an estimated 200 members of the nearly 1,000 Army Air Force pilots who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Base as fighter pilots in the Second World War.
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