Freshly minted recon Marines were showing up to their first units less prepared than expected, service leaders said. The Marine Corps is out to fix that.

“The missile was very precise. Let’s say if you want to hit a window from a far distance, it lands directly into that window,” a military official said.

The shipping company Maersk said the transit of its Alliance Fairfax was completed without incident and that all crew were safe and unharmed.

Two West Virginia National Guard officers received medals for overpowering the gunman who shot two service members in November.