Two decades ago, in January 2005, more than 3,500 members of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, the largest unit in the Mississippi National Guard, were deployed to Iraq. But no special date is needed for the unit’s veterans to stay in touch.

While he served four years in the Army, Robert Brewer’s 15 months in combat in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were so eventful that the 79-year-old was inducted into the Army Ranger Hall of Fame during a June 25 ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga.

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Mar. 20, 1962. It is republished unedited in its original form.

The U.S. military community at Yokota Air Base, Japan, gathered Friday for the annual Celebrate America festival, marking the Fourth of July holiday with food, games and live entertainment.

With one of the nation’s most famous immigrants watching, more than 100 people from 95 countries took the oath of allegiance to become U.S. citizens in an Independence Day ceremony on the lawn of George Washington’s home.

Waves of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial assault since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said Friday, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbor’s land.

President Donald Trump campaigned on keeping the United States out of foreign wars, but it didn’t take long to convince him to come to the direct aid of Israel, hitting Iranian nuclear targets with bunker-buster bombs dropped by B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a submarine.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.

Annexed militarized zones will soon cover nearly one-third of the U.S. border with Mexico, empowering soldiers to arrest people who cross the border illegally.

A North Korean man was taken into custody by the South Korean military after crossing the heavily fortified border between the two countries, according to the South’s Ministry of National Defense.