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U.S. Army National Guard soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, take a break during an exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, Nov. 8, 2021. Poland recently called for more NATO troops to be sent to the alliance's eastern flank.

Poland calls on NATO to send more forces amid concerns about Russia

President Andrzej Duda said a beefed up military presence along NATO’s eastern flank is needed given concerns over Russian’s intentions in the region.

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A still image from the U.S. Marine Corps' new recruiting commercial "Full Circle" released Nov. 11, 2021. The video shows the journey from one Marine generation to the next.

New recruiting campaign seeks to rekindle old Marine Corps spirit in veterans

A Ginowan city, Japan, official provided a photograph of a container that reportedly fell from a Marine Corps tilt-rotor aircraft Nov. 23, 2021.

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Minnesota soldier-senator ends deployment just in time for Thanksgiving — and birth of son

Minnesota state Sen. Zach Duckworth, who also serves as a major in the Minnesota Army National Guard, returned home from his deployment in the Middle East Wednesday afternoon. Less than 24 hours later, he wasn’t just celebrating Thanksgiving, he and his wife Carly were holding their newborn son, Leo.

New recruiting campaign seeks to rekindle old Marine Corps spirit in veterans

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Bill The Goat XXXVII stands with handlers on the sideline during the first half of an NCAA college football game between Navy and South Florida, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Annapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Got the wrong goat: West Point cadets try to nab Navy mascot

West Point cadets attempting to nab the U.S. Naval Academy's mascot ahead of the annual Army-Navy football game ended up grabbing a different goat, according to a report.

FILE - China's Peng Shuai waves after losing to Canada Eugenie Bouchard in their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 15, 2019. Out of public view for almost three weeks, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai appeared Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021 in a live video call with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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6-foot-3 senior Shion Fleming is one of a handful of football players on Matthew C. Perry's boys basketball roster.

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Betty Grebenschikoff, left, 91, reuniting with Ana María Wahrenberg, 91, in Florida. The women went shopping, shared meals and talked for days.

Best friends were separated when they fled the Nazis; 82 years later, they finally hugged again

For 82 years, Betty Grebenschikoff believed her best friend from Germany, Ana María Wahrenberg, was dead. But just a few weeks ago, there she was in the flesh, standing in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hotel room.

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Tadashi Yanagita stirs fermenting sweet potatoes at his family shochu distillery in Miyakonojo City, Japan.

Take a tasting tour of Japanese shochu distilleries in Miyazaki prefecture

Miyazaki prefecture, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, is the perfect place to enjoy locally made shochu. A recent press tour stopped at four distilleries to see how the beverage is made.