Kadena Air Base, Japan, Aug. 27, 2008: Josh Roberts, 26, of Morris, Ala., races around the track at Ryukyu Middle School on Kadena Air Base. Roberts is one of the 82 athletes on the U.S. Paralympics swim and track teams training on Kadena and Camp Foster in preparation for the 2008 Paralympic games in Beijing.

Check out Stars and Stripes Sports pages for coverage of some of the military and veteran paralympians at this year’s Paralympics Games in Paris, held Aug. 28-Sept. 8: https://www.stripes.com/sports/