Starting in January, the Defense Commissary Agency will no longer sell magazines in its overseas stores. This policy affects all commissaries in Europe, the Pacific—Guam, Japan, Okinawa, and South Korea—and Puerto Rico, said DeCA officials Wednesday. “The decision to eliminate magazine sales overseas was not an easy one, but a decision that had to be made in our fiscally constrained environment,” said Chris Burns, DeCA director of sales. Rising costs in transportation and declining sales influenced this decision, he noted. Magazines will still be available in military exchanges and bookstores located near most overseas commissaries, according to DeCA. Further, since Stars & Stripes is printed in theater, the commissaries will still sell this newspaper, said the officials. (Fort Lee report by Leslie Brown)
Pentagon officials overseeing homeland counter-drone strategy told lawmakers that even with preliminary moves to bolster U.S. base defenses, the military still lacks the capability to comprehensively identify, track, and engage hostile drones like those that breached the airspace of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 days in December…