NAPLES, Italy, March 30 -- The U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa - U.S. 6th Fleet issued the following news: The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) arrived in Cherbourg, France, 28 March, to disembark French Marines following NATO's largest exercise in decades, exercise Steadfast Defender 24. Gunston Hall originally embarked the Platoon of French Marines in February when they pulled into Portsmouth, UK. The U.S. Navy embarking, integrating, and operating with Allied  more