The package being sent includes about $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, sources said.
On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old Army medic. Now 99, he's about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy.
U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills near southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry.