Navy football fan, 2005

Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 3, 2005: Adrienne Maeser of North Carolina leaves no doubt who she’s cheering for.

Rolling down the river, 1967

South Vietnam, May 1967: Moving in a tactical formation, South Vietnamese Army “rag boats” ferry U.S. troops from the 25th Infantry Division down the Saigon River on the edge of the Boi Loi Woods, near Cu Chi, during Operation Manhattan.

Friend to foe, 2012

Shegal district, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012: First Lt. Andrew Ferrara, a 23-year-old platoon leader from Torrance, Calif., talks with locals during a patrol of the main bazaar in Shegal district, Kunar province.

Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100

Robert Fernandez, who died Wednesday at age 100 in Lodi, Calif., was among the hundreds of service members who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. His death leaves barely more than a dozen survivors of the attack still living.

Get milk, 1960

Here’s a look at grammar school students in 1960 in Seoul from the Stars and Stripes archives.

Soldier and child, 1967

South Vietnam, April 1967: Sgt. George Edmonds carries a wounded Vietnamese child to a helicopter on a patrol by the U.S. Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade in the area of Can Giouc.

Shielding the wounded, 1967

An Lao Valley, Vietnam, April 1967: Two tanks from 1st Platoon, A Company, 60th Armored Cavalry move in to help soldiers shield a wounded comrade during fighting along a riverbank in the An Lao Valley in 1967.

Swishing down the slope, 2003

Garmisch, Germany, March 1, 2003: Mark Marchant races down the piste in the ski giant slalom event at the 2003 U.S. Forces Europe Ski and Snowboard Series in Garmish.

Only 2 Pearl Harbor survivors, both over 100, attend surprise attack’s 83rd commemoration

The annual ceremony was once attended by scores of surviving Dec. 7 veterans. Fewer than two dozen remain living and only two attended Saturday’s commemoration. The pair were joined by only six other World War II veterans.

The American military women in WWII who trained to protect DC from attack

Although Battery X did not exist on paper, its work was very real. A highly secretive Army unit, Battery X was composed almost entirely of women responsible for defending D.C. against an air attack.

Waiting for Hoover, 1947

Berlin, Germany, Feb. 6, 1947: Military Police wait at the snow-covered entrance at Berlin’s Lichterfelde-West train station for former President Herbert Hoover to arrive.

Rolling tank salute, 1950

Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 3, 1950: Five tanks roll passed the review stand at Grafenwoehrs’s parade grounds.

Listening for the beep, 2011

Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Aug. 27, 2011: Sgt. Ramone Villablanca of Company C, 1st Battalion, 32 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division uses a “minehound” to check for improvised explosive devices.

Final flag lowering at Berlin Brigade Headquarters, 1994

Berlin, Sept. 7, 1994: Sgt. Brett Hickman (left), Sgt. David Rogers and Sgt. Alton Henderson from the Berlin Brigade perform the final retreat ceremony for the American flag at Clay Headquarters, marking the departure of U.S. troops from Berlin.

Watching horseplay, 2015

Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 15, 2015: Crowds watch a buzkashi match on the outskirts of Kabul.

‘Speedy’ Weber wrote his wife 300 letters in WWII. She saved them all.

A huge batch of a GI’s wartime letters to the “girl of my dreams” has been given anonymously to the USO in Arlington, Va.