Corky shows his affection for Sgt. Eric Goldenthal Jan. 27, 2014, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. They both received gunshot wounds to the leg while deployed to Afghanistan. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Approximately 150 paratroopers from the 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment conducted a heavy drop exercise on U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, Jan. 29, 2014. The exercise was designed to safely drop heavy equipment into a remote location and have troops parachute down and get it operational as quickly as possible. (Michael S. Darnell/Stars and Stripes)

Wiesbaden's Jared Lanterman holds his buzzer to his head in concentration late in the second half of his team's come-from-behind finals win Feb. 7, 2014, over SHAPE in the DODDS-Europe "brain bowl." Lanterman gave the final --- and winning --- answer of the two-day tournament and split MVP honors with AFNORTH senior Evan Bell. (Matt Millham/Stars and Stripes)

A player takes a shot at an opponent during a game of laser tag at World of Laser Kaiserslautern, Feb. 20, 2014. Players must navigate a darkly lit, foggy labyrinth in pursuit of their opponents. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Yellow confetti, thrown by participants at the Rosenmontag parade in Mainz, Germany, and the bare branches of the city's trees make an interesting pattern for a brief moment on March 3, 2014. (Gregory Broome/Stars and Stripes)

Kobe Mammann, 9, tosses a football between innings as he and his stepfather, Justin DuBose, watch his sister Riley DuBose of Kaiserslautern play in a softball doubleheader against Baumholder on March 29, 2014, in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Petty Officer 1st Class Cindy Berkshire keeps a lookout during a patrol of Djibouti port with Coastal Riverine Squadron-1 Forward Wave 2, April 2, 2014. The Navy?s Coastal Riverine Squadrons, formed soon after the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, provide security for Navy ships navigating through dangerous waters around the world. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Seven members of Italy's national air acrobatics team, Frecce Tricolori, fly over Aviano Air Base during a demonstration on April 4, 2014. (Kent Harris/Stars and Stripes)

Capt. Riley Redus greets his daughter, Sierra, while holding his newborn son, Caleb John, for the first time after returning from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment on April 7, 2014. (Michael S. Darnell/Stars and Stripes)

Pfc. Jeremy Monteleone holds daughter Jaden as his wife, Tiana Musson, and his son, Emrick Monteleone, wait their turn for hugs. The soldier was reunited with his family April 8, 2014, after a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Participants crawl through mud at the second annual Grafenw?hr Rugged Terrain Obstacle Course, April 12, 2014. The event began at the base gym but wound through 13 kilometers of wooded terrain, dotted with more than a dozen obstacles. (Michael S. Darnell/Stars and Stripes)

Cows graze near an American flag that marks the spot where an American B-17 bomber crashed in a field in Fouleng, Belgium, on April 13, 1944. (Matt Millham/Stars and Stripes)

Vilseck's Kraig Sumpter, left, and Mark Clifton, center, and Rota's Grant Wilholt rehearse Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" with the choir at the Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe Honors Music Festival, April 15, 2014. Nearly 160 students from DODDS-Europe high schools attended the annual festival. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Mont-St-Michel at dusk, May 7, 2014. The first church built on this small island off the French coast was constructed in 709. Later, an abbey church was built on the top of the rock and fortifications were added. Today it is one of France's top tourist attractions. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

A Lithuanian soldier feeds ammunition to an American M240 machine gun as part of a weapons familiarization drill with members of the American 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team from Vicenza, Italy, April 29, 2014. (Matt Millham/Stars and Stripes)

Kielar Hubert, an observer at the Memorial Day ceremony at Lorraine American Cemetery, touches a grave after the ceremony May 25, 2014, at St.-Avold, France. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Kernie's Family Park's highlight is the 190-foot-high vertical swing that is housed in the cooling tower. The amusement park is in Kalkar, Germany. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Multinational special forces assault a target on shore during a demonstration to the media and civilian observers at the Eager Lion exercise in Aqaba, Jordan, June 5, 2014. (Hendrick Simoes/Stars and Stripes)

A World War II re-enactor waves at an MC-130 overhead during a 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration at the 9th Air Force Memorial at Picauville, France, June 5, 2014. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

World War II veterans salute during the playing of the national anthem at the ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, on June 6, 2014, marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Members of the U.S. Army Europe Band are reflected in Sgt. 1st Class Tony Reosti's tuba on June 8, 2014, as they play before a parachute drop marking the 70th anniversary of a D-Day parachute drop near Cauquigny, France. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Re-enactors play around behind a beer tent on June 8, 2014, in Sainte-M?re-?glise after a parade of American, French and German soldiers marched into town as part of the 2014 D-Day commemorations in Normandy. (Matt Millham/Stars and Stripes)

A B-52 Stratofortress refuels through the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker over Britain on June 11, 2014. The Stratofortress was in Britain to help familiarize the bomber's aircrew with flying in Europe. (Adam L. Mathis/Stars and Stripes)

Crewmembers with the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 72 aboard the USS Oscar Austin perform pushups before a mission in the Baltic Sea on June 27, 2014. The guided-missile destroyer Austin was the first warship to visit the Baltic coast since Russia's annexation of Crimea. (Steven Beardsley/Stars and Stripes)

Members of the Breitling Wingwalkers lift their legs while standing atop planes flying over the Farnborough Airshow on July 20, 2014. (Adam L. Mathis/Stars and Stripes)

Seaman Nathaniel Post, left, hands Seaman Chris Rogakos a hot burner barrel from the boiler through a cloud of steam aboard the USS Bataan on July 22, 2014. The two sailors wear fire-resistant jackets, earplugs and masks to protect themselves from the intense heat. (Hendrick Simoes/Stars and Stripes)

Lake Amotsvatnet near the Amotsdalshytta hut in Dovrefjell National Park, Norway, July 22, 2014. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Naval aviators cross the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf after completing a flight, Aug. 10, 2014. F/A-18s launched from the Bush are among aircraft conducting airstrikes in Iraq. (Hendrick Simoes/Stars and Stripes)

Civil Air Patrol cadets march in formation after conducting basic navigation training in the forest near Landstuhl, Germany, Aug. 14, 2014, during a weeklong encampment that's a requirement to become an officer in the CAP cadet program. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Iraqi refugee children play with an old wheelchair inside their camp, an unfinished commercial building, in Irbil, Iraq, Aug. 21, 2014. Christians fled their homes in fear of the Islamic State group's advance in the Mosul region. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Aubrey-Janae Fleming, a third-grader at Vogelweh Elementary School in Kaiserslautern, Germany, works on her first assignment of the new school year: drawing a self-portrait. (Jennifer H. Svan/Stars and Stripes)

The Walking Tour Mullerthal-Consdorf trail crosses a stone bridge arching over a small waterfall, known as the Schiessentuempel, in Luxembourg's Mullerthal region. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Pvt. Benjamin Ranew, the junior member of the 7th Joint Multinational Training Command's "Best Warrior" team, holds security while other members of his team don gas masks during the competition at Grafenwohr, Germany, Sept. 16, 2014. (Michael S. Darnell/Stars and Stripes)

Pfc. Luis Carrera of the 173rd Airborne Brigade takes notes during traffic control training at Exercise Rapid Trident near Yavoriv, Ukraine, Sept. 17, 2014. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

A bride rests at a Lviv cafe after a photo session, Sept. 20, 2014. Brides and grooms posing for photographers is a common sight on the streets of this west Ukrainian city. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Capt. Brian Shea with the 37th Airlift Squadron performs a preflight walk around his C-130 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as his crew prepares to deliver pallets of water and Meals, Ready to Eat to Liberia in support of the U.S. military's effort to fight Ebola in West Africa, on Oct. 7, 2014. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Refugees play soccer on the baseball diamond on the former U.S. Army base known as Patton Barracks, in Heidelberg, Germany, Sept. 9, 2014. Their goals are made from scraps of wood and concrete. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Megan Stretch takes a photograph at Lorraine American Cemetery in St.-Avold, France, on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2014. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

Flight deck personnel prepare for flight operations on Nov. 28, 2014, aboard the USS Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf. (Hendrick Simoes/Stars and Stripes)

Reilly Neimhaus, 3, sits on the shoulders of her father, Maj. Pete Neimhaus, for a better view of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command's fifth annual tree lighting ceremony at Panzer Kaserne, Germany, Dec. 4, 2014. (Joshua L. DeMotts/Stars and Stripes)

A woman and her child watch evening prayers at the Iraqi Christian refugee camp surrounding Mar Illea Church in Irbil Dec. 12, 2014. They are among more than 100,000 Christians seeking refuge in the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. (Jad Sleiman/Stars and Stripes)