Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking at the convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Missouri, called victory in Iraq “critical” and pledged to hunt down insurgents one by one, if necessary.
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