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Cervia Air Base, Italy, Mar. 27, 1999: The tranquility of this twilight scene at Cervia AB, Italy, is misleading. The F-15C Eagle from the 48th Expeditionary Operations Group is preparing to leave for combat above Yugoslavia. NATO ramped up their air campaign at the end of the month.

History

From the archives, 1999 | Covering the war: Reporters share their experiences from the Balkans

Stars and Stripes reporters and photographers filed news stories from Albania and Macedonia over six weeks in 1999 as the NATO air campaign intensified and refugees flowed out of Kosovo.

April 23, 2024

Army Reserve Sgt. Nichole Hall, deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the Indianapolis-based 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), stirs chili at the North Dining Facility at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan during her 29-day assignment there which ended July 2, 2021, as the U.S. base closed.

Middle East

A $500 Rip It? How grilled cheese and energy drinks fueled the Afghanistan withdrawal

Energy drinks and tobacco became hot commodities as base residents hunted for diminishing supplies in the hectic weeks before the U.S. military left Bagram in early July.

July 24, 2021

Photograph of Private 1st Class Brandon Owens at a memorial service for him and Sgt. Aaron Smith, who were killed Oct. 2, 2009 by an Afghan police officer known to Americans as Crazy Joe.

Middle East

Crazy Joe: How Afghan officials ignored warnings and a policeman murdered two GIs

The American soldiers never learned the strange Afghan police officer’s name, so they started calling him “Crazy Joe.” They had no way of knowing how apt a nickname that was, or how many people had warned that arming Crazy Joe and sending him out with U.S. troops would be a terrible, treacherous idea.

June 26, 2011

Living

MRES: it could be worse (and it was)

Food, glorious food.

March 16, 2008

Drew Brown/StripesSgt. William McCormick (left), 24, of Savannah, Tenn., Pfc. Dustin Roscoe, 21, of Burleson, Texas and Capt. Brian Mason (right), 25, of Philadelphia chose sandwiches and pizza over traditional Thanksgiving fare Thursday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher in northern Iraq. They said Thanksgiving was just like any other day in Iraq and saw no particular reason to celebrate. They are with the 0411 Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.

News

Troops in Iraq celebrate Thanksgiving with turkey, pizza

Soldiers with the 0411 Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division had just come off a 24-hour mission with the Iraqi Army, and many of them slept in on Thanksgiving morning.

November 23, 2007