Vogelweh, Germany, July 27, 2001: Shaquille O’Neal, who played basketball at Fulda High School as a sophomore, signs a basketball for a young fan at the Vogelweh Powerzone.

Spangdahlem Air Base, Nov. 24, 2003: Carol Malackowski, wife of Lt. Col. Patrick Malackowski, waves her husband in as he pilots his A-10 Thunderbolt II to a Spangdahlem Air Base hangar.

A snowboarder kicks up a curtain of snow as he comes down the Tiefenbach glacier at Sölden, Austria, on Oct. 1, 2003.

Frankfurt, Germany, May 5, 1993: Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis plays at the Alte Oper, one of the first stops of his 1993 European tour.

A pair of young sledders kick up snow as they try to come to a stop on the slopes of Grindelwald, Switzerland, on Jan. 2, 2002.

Kirkuk, Iraq, May 5, 2003: Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Wear, Staff Sgt. Chip Davidson, and Staff Sgt. Brian Curtis, left to right, hoist a strand of concertina wire to help secure a living area.

Baghdad, Iraq, April 8, 2003: A Marine mans a M-240G machine gun on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, as smoke from a burning building billows by.

Hohenfels, Germany, April 11, 2016: Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and Italian troops get set to jump out of a C-17 above Hohenfels, Germany, as part of exercise Saber Junction.

USS Kitty Hawk, off the coast of Japan, Pacific Ocean, April 15, 2002: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Lazenby, an air traffic controller, updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk’s air traffic control center.

Spc. Devel Brook of the 771st Maintenance Company directs a Humvee onto the Northern Lights, a civilian ship docked in Shu’aibah Port, Kuwait, on Jan. 28, 2004.