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Athletes run laps around the hallways of the DODEA-Europe school in Bahrain on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The team trains before school in the hallways to avoid heat-related injuries. <br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes
Athletes run laps around the hallways of the DODEA-Europe school in Bahrain on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The team trains before school in the hallways to avoid heat-related injuries. <br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes

Bahrain looks for creative ways for athletes to beat the heat

Every weekday morning, before the janitors show up to clean the floors, the boys and girls teams dash through the school hallways to avoid heat-related injuries.

A collection of chief petty officer coins is displayed on August 28, 2019. The tradition of challenge coins within the chief's mess has seen an increase in production and creativity since the late 1990s when the practice was generally reserved for senior leadership.<br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes
A collection of chief petty officer coins is displayed on August 28, 2019. The tradition of challenge coins within the chief's mess has seen an increase in production and creativity since the late 1990s when the practice was generally reserved for senior leadership.<br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes

Navy ‘challenge coins’ are collected like trading cards. But some think the trade devalues the tradition.

There’s a burgeoning online market for the elaborate and colorful coins pressed into the palms of Navy petty officers when they pin on their crows and take the chief petty officer’s pledge, but some critics say the trade diminishes the value of the tradition.

Heather Heffernan, a 5th grade teacher at the Bahrain School, goes over classwork with a student on Sept. 5, 2019. The Bahrain School has a new policy of assigning no homework other than reading for grades K-5, falling in line with a Bahrain Ministry of Education decision announced last year.<br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes
Heather Heffernan, a 5th grade teacher at the Bahrain School, goes over classwork with a student on Sept. 5, 2019. The Bahrain School has a new policy of assigning no homework other than reading for grades K-5, falling in line with a Bahrain Ministry of Education decision announced last year.<br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes

No more homework for kids at DODEA elementary school in Bahrain

Parents of kids at the DODEA elementary school in Bahrain were told at the start of the new school year that students will no longer be assigned traditional homework but should read at home for at least 20-30 minutes a day.

An MQ-9 Reaper drone sits on the ramp at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, in 2018. <br>Chad Garland/Stars and Stripes
An MQ-9 Reaper drone sits on the ramp at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, in 2018. <br>Chad Garland/Stars and Stripes

Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to shoot down US drone

The U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement that it was investigating the Houthi claims that they attacked an unmanned U.S. drone "operating in authorized airspace" over Yemen.

Coastal patrol ship captain Lt. Cmdr. Dale Tourtelotte, from the USS Hurricane, salutes a passing Bahraini patrol ship while underway on June 30, 2019. Ten coastal patrol ships, or PCs, operate in the Persian Gulf and are homeported at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. <br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes
Coastal patrol ship captain Lt. Cmdr. Dale Tourtelotte, from the USS Hurricane, salutes a passing Bahraini patrol ship while underway on June 30, 2019. Ten coastal patrol ships, or PCs, operate in the Persian Gulf and are homeported at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. <br>Joshua Karsten/Stars and Stripes

Bahrain to join US-led naval coalition in the Persian Gulf

Bahrain has agreed to join a U.S.-led coalition for maritime security in the Persian Gulf, making it the third member of a group proposed in the wake of heightened tensions with Iran.

A Soldier from the 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, works on top of the Patriot Missile Defense System during missile transport and reload training in Koper, Slovenia, June 3, 2019 as part of the joint exercise Astral Knight 19. <br>Erica Earl/U.S. Army
A Soldier from the 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, works on top of the Patriot Missile Defense System during missile transport and reload training in Koper, Slovenia, June 3, 2019 as part of the joint exercise Astral Knight 19. <br>Erica Earl/U.S. Army

Bahrain locks in Patriot missile system deal with US contractor

Bahrain has signed an agreement to purchase the Patriot air and missile defense system, putting it in line with other Persian Gulf nations partnered with the U.S. amid ongoing tensions in the region with Iran.

A marijuana plant found during a patrol in Georgia by the state's Army National Guard in 2013. The Navy is warning sailors that hemp-derived products are still prohibited under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<br>
A marijuana plant found during a patrol in Georgia by the state's Army National Guard in 2013. The Navy is warning sailors that hemp-derived products are still prohibited under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<br>

Ingesting hemp-derived products still prohibited, Navy warns

Sailors and Marines could still pop positive on a drug test if they use cannabidiol, popularly known as CBD, while treating medical conditions, the Navy warned this week.