Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines

June 27, 2017     Thousands pay their respects to lost USS Fitzgerald sailors at Yokosuka Thousands of people lined the streets of Yokosuka Tuesday to pay their respects to the seven USS Fitzgerald sailors who died after the destroyer collided with a cargo ship off the coast of Japan on June 17.   US soldier critically injured after electric shock near the Hungarian border U.S. military officials say an American soldier has been hospitalized in Romania in critical condition after suffering an electric shock while working at a railway station near the Hungarian border.   Mattis rejects mission creep in Syria as new chemical weapons threat alleged The Pentagon said Tuesday that the United States has detected “active handling of chemical weapons” at Syria’s Shayrat air base, which prompted the White House to warn President Bashar Assad that he would “pay a very heavy price” if those weapons are used.   US tanks on rotation to Europe unleash fury on the range Army tankers with the 1st Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, let loose a hailstorm of 120 mm armor-piercing and multipurpose rounds from their M1A2 Abrams tanks during live-fire training on Tuesday.   Unexploded ordnance at Yokota turns out to be old box of bullets Normal operations have resumed at Yokota in western Tokyo after unexploded ordnance found Monday turned out to be an old box of bullets.   Marine Corps Installations Pacific gets new commander on Okinawa Marine Brig. Gen. Paul Rock has taken command of Marine Corps Installations Pacific and Camp Butler, which provides installation services to forward-deployed Marines, sailors and their families in Okinawa, mainland Japan, South Korea and Hawaii.   Local firefighters join Mildenhall department for training exercise U.S. Air Force firefighters on Monday extinguished the raging inferno of a prop aircraft with a steady blast from the twin water cannons of a fire truck during a live-fire exercise on base.   New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh assault paralyzed some hospitals, government offices and major multinational corporations in a dramatic demonstration of how easily malicious programs can bring daily life to a halt.   House members want taxpayer money to hire personal security House of Representatives lawmakers want $25,000 each to hire private security right away to protect them in their home districts, an unusually quick, bipartisan response to the shooting of a Republican House leader and others at a baseball practice.   Former Green Beret gets not guilty verdict in 2015 shooting death of intruder An El Paso County jury on Monday acquitted a Green Beret of negligent homicide for fatally shooting an intruder in his garage.   Bangor submarine commander relieved of duty Cmdr. Steven Everhart was relieved by Capt. Mark Schmall, head of Submarine Squadron 17, because of a loss of confidence in his ability to serve as commanding officer.   Fort Bragg paratroopers headed to Afghanistan The soldiers are part of a larger group of 1,500 deploying paratroopers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.