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Rodriguez Live Fire Range, South Korea, June 4, 2017: Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska, keep watch over a stairwell during a drill.

Eisenhower in Taiwan, 1960

Taipei, Taiwan, June 19, 1960: A smiling President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Taiwan President Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

Bon Bon Bomber, 1949

Somewhere above Germany, Oct. 18, 1949: Capt. Eugene T. Williams, U.S. Air Force assistant German Youth Activities officer, prepares to throw a Schmoo full of candy out of the Bon Bon Bomber.



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Protesting ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ 2010

Washington, Dec. 10, 2010: Advocates of the repeal of the military’s ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’‘ policy gather outside the U.S. Capitol in protest, a day after the repeal effort died in the Senate.

Welcoming teachers in Okinawa, 1960

Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 11, 1960: Beverly Beeler (left), Kubasaki Junior High School, and Dotty Breslar, Sukiran Elementary School, help themselves to hors d’oeuvres at a welcome party Sunday for Okinawa’s new teachers.

Training exercise in Romania, 2007

Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, May 2, 2007: Senior Airman Ignacio Flores, right, and Airman 1st Class Anthony Andrzejewski, left, weapons troops assigned to the 493rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit, clean up an F-15 Eagle after a sortie over Eastern Romania in May.

Flight simulator, 1962

Suwon Air Base, South Korea, June 1962: Capt. Lachlan MacLeay, operations officer of Detachment 2, 6246th Air Force Advisory Group, checks out Col. Sun Hyok Rhim, director of operations, 10th ROK Fighter Wing, in an F-86D flight simulator.

It’s what’s for dinner, 1947

Germany, September 1947: An unidentified staff sergeant of the Fourth Air Force of the U.S. Air Force shows the food rations for one U.S. service member stationed in Germany.

Boat race in Vietnam, 1968

Da Nang, South Vietnam, Aug. 15, 1968: Vietnamese sailors watch hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen from the coast villages near the Army of the Republic of Vietnam’s I Corps’ base take part in boat races with their fishing boats.

Welcome home, 1949

Wiesbaden, Germany, Oct. 13, 1949: Maj. C.R. Hall, Wiesbaden’s post billeting officer, presents a bouquet to Eunice Steed, wife of Capt. Cecil V. Steed, adjutant of the 7167th Special Air missions Squadron (second from left), welcoming them as the first tenants in Wiesbaden’s new German-financed apartments project.

Scout helicopters in Vietnam, 1966

Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing.

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