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.

Military leaders review troops at Patch Barracks, the new home EUCOM headquarters in Germany, in this 1967 Stars and Stripes photo.

A truck lays a portable road of steel wire mesh ahead of it across the soft sand of the beach as other vehicles of the amphibious force follow in South Korea in this 1962 Stars and Stripes photo.

Children clutch “welcome home” signs as they hug their father, a Marine who returned from a deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan in this 2014 Stars and Stripes photo.

Rear Adm. Gregory Smith displays a recent weapons cache found at a Green Zone press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, in this 2007 Stars and Stripes photo.

Members of an Air Force special operations wing based in England paid respects at a memorial honoring a British-led World War II special operations force whose legacy intertwines with their own.

The nonprofit organization asked people this week to upload videos 30 to 90 seconds long that can be shared on social media about the importance of the monument to them.

Airmen gather for the opening ceremony of Gateway Gardens apartments in this 1950 Stars and Stripes photo.

Actress Sonomi Nakajima acts surprised as a group of service members hold out their napkins for her autograph in this 1959 Stars and Stripes photo.

Sgt. Michael Cain, who lost a leg to an anti-tank mine in 2003, speaks about an Army support program during a meeting in this 2004 Stars and Stripes photo.

An airman enjoys some time off snowboarding in the Alps in this 2003 Stars and Stripes photo.

Coast Guard Seaman Dave Smith scratches Cutter aboard the USCG Galveston Island in Guam in this Stars and Stripes photo from 2000.

Tea Party supporter Susan Clark rings her bell as supporters of the Affordable Health Care Act march past her in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. in this 2012 Stars and Stripes photo.

Workers at Darul Aman Palace prepare balloons for a celebration of Afghan Independence Day in this 2020 Stars and Stripes photo.