Heather Benit is a digital editor for Stars and Stripes’ Europe bureau. Previously she was a script editor and researcher for National Geographic television and was a news editor for Stars and Stripes in Washington.

Chad is a Marine Corps veteran who covers the U.S. military in the Middle East, Afghanistan and sometimes elsewhere for Stars and Stripes. An Illinois native who’s reported for news outlets in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Oregon and California, he’s an alumnus of the Defense Language Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University.