East Carolina came back to win the Go Bowling Military Bowl on Saturday, 26-21, after blowing a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter.

See the best photos by the Stars and Stripes Europe staff of DODEA high school and European Forces Swim League sports from 2024.

Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Irving Cintron has been putting on Christmas light shows since late November for his neighbors at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. It’s a tradition he began nearly 20 years ago during his enlisted days, but this year’s light shows are the final chapter for Cintron at Yokota, as he plans to retire in June.

Santa Claus and Yoko-Pon, the beloved mascot for Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, helped usher in the holiday season with a Christmas tree lighting ceremony earlier this month near the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet.

Inhabitants of this remote atoll rushed onto a beach Wednesday as a U.S. Air Force plane prepared to drop crates filled with much-needed supplies and some Christmas cheer.

About 100 young athletes from across Japan gathered at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the weekend for the 45th Kanto Plains Special Olympics.

President Joe Biden honored the service of the men and women of the U.S. military by laying a wreath during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning.

Using scrub brushes, buckets and hoses transported to the site by a National Park Service truck, the volunteers spent nearly an hour cleaning the memorial in preparation of Veterans Day.

The 49th annual Marine Corps Marathon took place on Sunday in the streets of Washington and Arlington, Va. Thousands of runners and spectators came out to participate in one of the largest annual marathon races in the world. Marine Major Kyle King claimed the men’s victory for the second time after his first triumph in 2022.

Asemoon Amirazodi was determined to get a towering skeleton from the U.S. to her home at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni near Hiroshima, but she’d reached a dead end. But then Home Depot stepped in to help get Skelly to Japan in time for Halloween.