Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talks to U.S. Marines and Air Force personnel assigned to Moron Air Base, Spain, in this 2015 Stars and Stripes photo.

Service members cheer as they hoist a boy holding a newspaper up onto their shoulders in this 1961 Stars and Stripes photo.

Members of the 233rd Military Police Company, a National Guard unit from Springfield, Ill., relax on top of their Humvee in this 2004 Stars and Stripes photo.

Marine Sgt. Kyle Morgan and Staff Sgt. Alexander Hayes look at the partial solar eclipse through a filtered lens on Kleber Kaserne in this 2015 Stars and Stripes photo.

Actor Will Smith thrilled troops and family members during a visit to Yokota Air Base, Japan, in this 2007 Stars and Stripes photo.

A soldier re-emerges from the water after being baptized by a chaplain in Iraq, in this 2004 Stars and Stripes photo.

A soldier with the Congolese army, seen in this 2011 Stars and Stripes photo, was trained by Americans alongside 750 other soldiers.

Participants in the Freedom Walk, designed to commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks and show support for overseas military, begin the two-mile march from the Pentagon to the National Mall in this 2005 Stars and Stripes photo.

Polish soldiers train alongside Slovenian and U.S. troops at the Noncommissioned Officer Academy Warrior Leaders Course at Grafenwöhr, Germany, in this 2006 Stars and Stripes photo.

A Spanish sailor looks through a pair of binoculars aboard the frigate Numancia as a U.S. military cargo ship travels in the Strait of Gibraltar in this 2003 Stars and Stripes photo.