Is he crazy?! That might be the first thought for those who see this photo of Air Force Veterinarian Major Douglas Riley from the 13th Air Force International Health, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, standing in front of wild water buffalo. For Riley, it’s just another day at the office.

Once Riley corralled the water buffalo into the pen, he discovered a cow carrying a stillborn calf. He used the discovery as an opportunity to teach the residents of Fuiloro, Timor-Leste, on the southernmost edge of the Indonesian archipelago, how to examine their bovine livestock.

The photographer, Master Sergeant Jeremy Lock, was stationed with Riley when he snapped this photo of the veterinarian corralling water buffalo into a pen for examination. The airmen were in Fuiloro for Pacific Angel 11-02, a joint humanitarian and civic-military exercise. Lock recalled being very impressed with Riley’s work with the animals.

“He tries to educate people, he doesn’t really give the medicine,” Lock said. “He is there to help teach the people how to administer it.”

Lock, who entered the military in 1992, said his original plan was to stay in for four years. Years later he is still part of the Air Force.

“I became an imagery processor and developed satellite footage,” he explained. “I started picking up the camera and teaching myself ... and fell in love with photography.”

He not only took photography by the reins, he rose to the top. He is the only military photographer to be recognized as the best in the business four times, earning Military Photographer of the Year in 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2008.

His favorite part of the business? “Being able to tell people’s stories.”

While the Oscars mostly honored subdued films on Sunday night, the action-driven “Act of Valor” cruised to box office victory over the weekend, grossing $24.7 million.

The film, which features active duty Navy SEALs, has received high praise for its warfare sequences, even though several reviewers panned its acting. (In a tongue-in-cheek move, the New York Observer pulled excerpts from movie reviewers who may not have caught the several stories in the last few weeks about how the film was derived from a Pentagon effort to boost recruiting).

In other news around the military:

• At least nine people were killed Monday in a bombing outside a NATO airbase in Afghanistan as violence continues after the Koran incident at Bagram Airfield last week.
  
  
• Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling said a radar missile defense site in Turkey is now up and running as a deterrent to any Iranian attack against Europe.

After a detailed search, the Department of Defense released names of 78 troops who will be attending the February 29 White House dinner marking the end of the Iraq War.

But the most interesting thing about the event so far – titled “A Nation’s Gratitude” and hosted by President Barack Obama – may be the steps the DOD took to make it happen.

USA Today has a story about the filtering process the Pentagon executed to make sure every corner of America was seen in the faces of the service members attending the dinner.

“Old, young, male, female, gay, straight. We wanted the entire country represented,” Pentagon spokesman Doug Wilson told CNN’s Security Clearance blog. “That means all ranks, all branches of service, all races. We wanted it to look like the battlefield in Iraq.”

Read the full list of invitees here.

It’s been a nightmarish 24 hours for American forces around the globe.

Seven Marines were killed when helicopters collided over the California desert Wednesday night and two U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday amid nationwide protests over improper disposal of Korans at Bagram Air Base.

According to The Associated Press, the helicopters collided during night training at the Yuma Training Range Complex near the Arizona border. The area is used to simulate flying conditions in Afghanistan.

Half a world away, a NATO spokesperson confirmed to CBS News that two American troops were killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform outside a base in eastern Afghanistan during a riot over the alleged burning of Korans earlier this week.

Afghanistan is demanding the NATO troops responsible for the Koran incident be put on trial. President Barack Obama sent Afghan President Hamid Karzai a letter apologizing for the incident.

By the time World War II ended, America’s wartime production record included almost 300,000 airplanes, more than 100,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, 88,000 warships, 370,000 artillery pieces, 47 million tons of artillery ammunition, and 44 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition. Time magazine called America’s wartime production a miracle.

The miracle would not have happened without “Rosie the Riveter.” In real life, Rosie was women like Norma Cutting, a crane operator who worked 60 feet above a cement floor at a steel factory. She was also Norma Jeane Dougherty who worked at Radio Plane in the dope room where a liquid plastic—or dope—was sprayed over cloth that became the fuselage for target planes and who was photographed by an Army photographer for Yank magazine. Those photographs launched a modeling and film career for which Norma Jeane later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

Norma Cutting and Norma Jeane Dougherty were just two of the millions of women who were part of the work force in the defense industry that created the miracle of production. In addition, millions more women performed what were called essential civilian jobs—jobs that kept the home front running smoothly—working as police officers, musicians, loggers, taxi drivers, baseball players, farmers, and chemists.

When the war ended in 1945, these job opportunities for women abruptly disappeared.

“I will never forget the day after the war ended. We met the girls at the door and we handed them a slip to go over to personnel and get their severance pay,” said William Mulcahy, who supervised women war workers at a factory in Camden, New Jersey. “We didn’t even allow them in the building, all these women with whom I had become so close, who had worked seven days a week for years and had been commended so many times by the Navy for the work they were doing.”

Although America no longer needed women war workers, the story of their wartime contributions is found in the words of people who lived during World War II—in employment records and statistics, magazine and newspaper articles, radio programs and thousands of posters, pamphlets, and photographs. It is an amazing story about a time when stereotypes about men’s work and women’s work were suspended. A time when traditional barriers that had blocked women workers were lowered and they had a chance to prove what they could do.

As I studied statistics, read old magazines and newspapers, viewed propaganda films, read oral histories, and talked with former women workers, I was amazed at the variety of jobs women did during World War II. They were barbers, railroad track tenders, aerodynamic engineers, flame cutters, tool machinists, furnace operators, welders, street cleaners, lumberjacks, flag-post painters, drawbridge tenders, and brain pickers in slaughterhouses. I was fascinated by the glut of posters, articles, advertisements, celebrity pitches, movies and songs produced by the government and industry for massive propaganda campaigns aimed at selling war jobs to women—especially housewives—who were also reminded to be “feminine and ladylike, even though you are filling a man’s shoes.”

By the end of 1944, it was clear that the war would not go on much longer. On June 6—known as D-Day—allied troops had invaded France and were pushing the German troops back to Germany. In the war against Japan, U.S. troops had captured island after island in 1943 and 1944. As 1945 began, the peak of industrial mobilization in America was over. Slowly, the number of jobs in defense industries declined. Before 1945 ended, millions of men returned from the battlefield to the home front, and soon there were enough male workers again. The propaganda campaigns told women war workers to return to their homes.

Some women were ready to quit.

“As soon as it’s curtains for the Axis, it’s going to be lace curtains for me,” Lorainne Blum, a riveter in a Boeing plant, said in the company newsletter. “I want to establish my own home and stay put.”

But many women did mind losing their jobs. In Highland Park, Michigan, 200 women who had been laid off from the Ford plant conducted a protest. Marching in front of the plant, they carried signs that read “Stop Discrimination Because of Sex” and “How Come No Work For Women?”

When Ottilie Juliet Gattus—who had worked at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation for the duration of the war—was laid off, she wrote to President Roosevelt, “I happen to be a widow with a mother and son to support. … I would like to know why, after serving a company in good faith for almost three and a half years, it is now impossible to obtain employment with them. I am a lathe hand and was classified as skilled labor, but simply because I happed to be a woman I am not wanted."

As they lived their lives after World War II, many women war workers did not talk about their experience. For some women, it was too painful to remember how quickly their careers as welders, riveters and crane operators had ended. Other women who were working hard to survive did not have time to reminisce. Many women felt people were not interested in their stories, especially in the 1950s, when there was an escalating trend toward blaming working women for problems ranging from juvenile delinquency to divorce. But women war workers never forgot the experiences that they had for the duration of World War II. They never forgot the thrill of getting a chance to do a job. They never forgot the satisfaction of earning good wages. They never forgot the excitement of being independent. They never forgot that once there was a time in America when women were told that they could do anything. And they did.

A lot has happened for Robert X. Fogarty in the past year. The Dear World mastermind has gone from community organizer – which he still is with the Evacuteer.org nonprofit he started in 2009 – to a social art director for modern times.

Since On Patrol last talked to Fogarty, he’s worked with the New Orleans Saints again, doing a shoot with former Saint Steve Gleason, who is battling ALS. Fogarty also photographed Saints quarterback Drew Brees and head coach Sean Payton to help Gleason’s foundation, Team Gleason.

Fogarty’s got New Orleans nailed down, but he’s also building a broader brand with the Dear World project by documenting stories like that of Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ryan Leach. (That shoot is featured in the Spring issue of On Patrol).

As Fogarty sees it, the Leach shoot won’t be the last time he works with members of the U.S. military.

“I’d love to do more work with servicemen,” Fogarty said. “To do love letters home with servicemen abroad I think would just be so awesome.

“To have people thousands of miles away from their families and to write basically a love letter home on their body through this picture is always one that I’ve wanted to get done.”

Many who’ve sat for Dear World portraits have had powerful emotional reactions to the photos – some of which even come out in the pictures themselves. Fogarty says the feeling is equally unique on the other side of the camera.

“Most people don’t ever have that opportunity to have that quick experience with someone that you’ll remember forever,” he said.

Battleship may be one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, but Peter Berg already has his eye on another military story he wants to tell.

When On Patrol spoke to the director at the end of 2011, he shared his thoughts on the Lone Survivor project, an adaptation of a war memoir by former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell that Berg wants to make into a film. Luttrell was the only member of a four-man squad to survive an intense firefight against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2005.

“It’s an incredible story,” Berg said. “It’s an incredible look at how complicated war is today. There’s so much we’re asking of these men—especially these guys who are Navy SEALS. The decisions they have to make, the inability to prepare for every contingency, the intelligence and the morality we need these guys to have, and all of that comes through in the story of Lone Survivor.”

The firefight, and failed rescue attempt, resulted in the death of 19 American servicemen. Navy Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, a member of Luttrell’s SEAL team, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his efforts during the battle. Luttrell escaped death and was harbored by an Afghan tribe that eventually facilitated his reunion with coalition forces.

To understand what it was like to operate in the field, Berg said he embedded with SEAL Team 5 in Iraq for a month.

“It was the greatest experience of my life that I got to live with the SEALs and go out and watch them operate and watch them do the things they do,” he said. “I made friends for life from that. … It was after I did that that I was really able to write the script.

“The SEAL community is a pretty closed group. They’re not press-friendly. It takes them quite a while to warm up to you. And the fact that I made such good friends and these are friends for life, and that was one of the great experiences of my life.”

Berg also visited some of the families of the fallen from the battle, including that of Luttrell’s SEAL teammate Navy Petty Officer Second Class Danny Dietz.

“I sat in Danny Dietz’ bedroom with his father and his father read me the autopsy report of his son,” Berg said. “His son was shot [multiple] times and kept fighting. And I watched his father read that autopsy report and watched his hand shake and the tears pour out of his eyes and onto that piece of paper.

“He finally finished and he looked up at me and he said ‘I just want you to know how tough my son was.’ And I said ‘Yes sir, I get that.’

“When you go through those types of experiences as a filmmaker, there’s no way you don’t want to tell that story.”

The Supreme Court will take a look at the Stolen Valor act today, a law that criminalizes false claims about military service.

At the heart of the argument is whether or not a law—in this case, one that President Barack Obama’s administration and veterans’ groups consider narrowly crafted—can criminalize someone’s speech. On the other side of the argument, civil liberties groups, publishers and media entities are concerned the law could lead to more government attempts to regulate speech.

According to Fox News, attorneys for Xavier Alvarez—who has been prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act—admit in their Supreme Court brief that Alvarez is a liar, but argue his falsehoods caused no harm.

Read more in High court examines lying about military exploits.

In other news around the military:

• Protests over an incident involving Korans at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan have now spread around the war torn nation. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul is on lockdown because of the protests, according to Reuters.
  
  
• A U.S. military base in Florida will be working with Spain to process the transfer of 17 tons of Spanish shipwreck treasure, according to the Washington Post.

One crisis management lesson that will be taken from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that bad news—even in a third-world country—now  travels faster than anyone can anticipate.

A violent protest occurred outside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan today after word spread that NATO troops had improperly disposed of Islamic religious materials, including placing Korans in an area where materials are burned. There is a dispute between Afghans and Western officials over whether or not any Korans were actually set ablaze.

Marine General John R. Allen—the American officer in charge of operations in Afghanistan—released a statement apologizing for the action, thanking Afghans on the base for stopping the burning when they did, and promising an investigation.

Read more in NATO Commander Apologizes for Koran Disposal in Afghanistan.

In other news around the military:

• The U.S. Postal Service has issued a series of stamps called Dogs at Work. One of the stamps—seen here—features a dog working with troops downrange. The stamps are 65 cents apiece and are good for sending first class mail up to 2 ounces.
  
  

Today's trip around the military brings us a trio of interesting stories for very different reasons:

• The U.S. will likely continue paying for Afghanistan's army after the planned 2014 withdrawal, according to the Washington Post. A source told the Post it will cost roughly $4 billion per year to maintain the country's army after the coalition leaves Afghanistan, and that figure will likely need to come from the U.S. and other donors.

• Time's Battleland blog has the story of a Navy pilot who shot down an Air Force plane in 1988. Twenty-five years later, he's being promoted to rear admiral.

• According to Stars and Stripes, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama in Japan took turns wearing "pregnancy simulators" while exercising this week to better understand how to be fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers. (Yes, there's video.)

• According to Politico, a poll says a majority of Americans back the idea of taking a “strong stance” to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if that means military action. On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad toured a plant and lauded his country’s progress in the uranium enrichment process.

• The Air Force may be buying thousands of iPads for use on flight lines.
  
  
• Navy leaders have removed the long-used unofficial motto of “Initial Success or Total Failure” from a wall at the service’s school for explosive ordnance disposal technicians at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida because they felt it was too insensitive.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is getting the message out that the Defense Department’s $614 billion budget has little room for changes.

In prepared remarks he’ll make before Congress today, Panetta will emphasize that the lawmakers’ mandate to cut spending will have to come at the expense of their own states.

“It was this Congress that mandated, on a bipartisan basis, that we reduce the defense budget, and we need your partnership to do this in a manner that preserves the strongest military in the world,” Panetta said in the written testimony, according to The Associated Press. “This will be a test of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or action.”

Read more in Panetta defends military budget plan.

In other news around the military:

• Defense think tanker Michael O’Hanlon takes a look at what he calls Obama’s optimistic military budget in CNN’s Global Public Square.

• Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is the latest celebrity to be invited to a military ball.

“Hey Chuck” isn’t really the way service men and women would address a senior officer.

But according to an interview on Time’s Battleland blog, you have a decent shot at getting away with that in Israel.

That, and other insights, are provided by Daniel Houten, an Israeli Army vet who is now completing U.S. Army basic training.

Houten gives his opinion on everything from boots to MREs – and why he decided to have a second military career under the flag of a different nation – in One Private, Two Armies.

In other news around the military:

• The Army’s quest for a new camouflage design has three billion-dollar companies and one outlier: a four-person shop in Alaska run out of its CEO’s home. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has the story.

• Army’s men’s basketball team defeated Navy 69-63 in double overtime over the weekend.

 

The military is changing is nutrition standards for the first time in 20 years, pushing troops toward a diet of more fruit and less fat.

The change, which was announced during First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, puts a focus on lean meats, fruits and whole grains.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Defense Department says it spends in the vicinity of $4.5 billion per year on food services, and over $1 billion on troops with obesity-related medical issues. The nutrition change aims to drastically reduce the obesity-related spending.

Read more in U.S. military meals redux: More fruit and vegetables, less fat.

In other news around the military:

• Marine Sergeant Benjamin Johns was found not guilty of violating a lawful order in the hazing of Lance Corporal Harry Lew. Lew later killed himself. The Associated Press has the story.
  
  
• Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz emphasized Thursday that he values affordability over bells and whistles when coming up with a new bomber. The development of any such aircraft is at least a decade away.

First there was the video. Now he’s all over Twitter and blogs. Advocacy groups are pushing for him. He’s even had a two-part feature on HDNet.

Daniel Rodriguez just wanted to play football. But the circumstances surrounding his dream – and the actions he’s taken to overcome them – are making him into a legend.

Now – after family trauma, a stint in battle for which he received a Bronze Star but lost great friend in the process, and a battle with post traumatic stress – he’s chasing his dream of playing Division I football.

Read more about the former soldier in Still Scarred By Two Wars, American Hero Daniel Rodriguez Chases His Football Dream.

In other news around the military:

• The Pentagon is recommending women be allowed to serve in more jobs that will put them closer to the frontlines. Time has the story.

• In coalition news, Britain’s Prince Harry has become fully qualified as an Apache pilot, setting the stage for a possible deployment back to Afghanistan.

The past decade of war has been revolutionary for the United States military. It has adapted to a very old kind of warfare for which it was unprepared, developed new tools to defeat terrorists, and—most of all—seen extraordinary determination and courage from a new generation of great Americans who are part of an all-volunteer force.

As the wars begin to wind down and the country struggles to pay the bills it has accumulated, we must ensure those who have borne the burden of these wars are not forgotten. We must ensure the nation remembers and cares for our veterans and their families as they have earned, and as they deserve.

In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in Operation Desert Storm, the American military focused on improving its capability to fight a conventional war against conventional enemies—although there were few to be found. When the attacks of September 11 struck three of the intended targets, America rapidly attacked an Afghan government that shielded al Qaeda, toppling the Taliban in an innovative campaign that relied upon Special Forces soldiers, some riding horseback, calling in the support of the world’s most powerful Air Force.

The innovative campaign failed to capture Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda, who escaped into Pakistan. It also failed to provide stability to a shattered country that was reeling after a generation of war. The Taliban regained strength across the border in Pakistan and soon began returning to Afghanistan as guerillas, but America was focused elsewhere.

Within hours of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, senior members of the Bush administration were already planning an attack on Iraq. The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was a replay of the Afghan campaign on a much larger scale. Again, a tremendously successful initial invasion was not enough to build a better peace in the aftermath of war.

In Iraq, U.S. decisions to disband the Iraqi Army, prevent members of the Ba’ath party from serving in government, and postpone local rule added fuel to a nascent insurgency that burst into flame during the hot summer of 2003. My Army tank unit was preparing for conventional combat against another armored force when we suddenly received orders to deploy to Iraq.

We soon arrived in a town named Khalidiyah in Iraq’s Wild West, in Al Anbar province, that was populated almost exclusively by Sunnis who hated the Shia-dominated government that had assumed power in the wake of Saddam’s departure. The town’s police chief was assassinated the day we arrived, the second to fall in the six months since the invasion. We struggled to build a police force that would protect the people and develop local government that would translate their needs into words we could understand and programs we could fund, and we fought hard against enemies we could rarely see.

Our town was situated between the provincial capital and insurgent hotbed of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah, where four private security contractors took a wrong turn to their deaths in the spring of 2004. The American reaction to the killings was swift, powerful, and poorly informed, spurring a national uprising that unified the Sunnis and Shia against us. Bridges were blown, supply convoys ambushed, and we went on short rations as all that we had worked to build went up in flames.

My unit’s experience was a suitable metaphor for the next two years of the war in Iraq. The destruction of the Golden Mosque in Samarra in February 2006 was the final straw as the insurgency metastasized into a full-scale civil war. America no longer believed we were fighting a few “dead-enders.” As 2006 drew to a close, President Bush named a new Secretary of Defense and commander in Iraq.

The new commander, Army General David Petraeus, had been preparing for this day. He implemented counterinsurgency doctrine that focused on understanding and protecting the population, taking advantage of an American Army and Marine Corps that had learned painful lessons about what worked and what didn’t during previous tours in Iraq. The results were dramatic. Violence dropped rapidly, with progress accelerated by the decision of Sunnis to join with American forces in what became known as the “Sawa,” or “Awakening.” By the summer of 2008 it was clear to those on the ground that something fundamental had changed.

The timing was fortuitous, as the situation in America’s other war was moving rapidly in the wrong direction. President Barack Obama, surprised by how dire the situation was in what America then thought of as “the good war” when he took office, tripled U.S. forces committed to Afghanistan during his first year in office. Intense fighting swiftly resulted as soldiers and Marines struggled to implement the clear, hold, and build counterinsurgency doctrine that had been battle tested in Iraq. America poured resources into building and training the Afghan army and police force, an effort hampered more by the recruits’ inability to read than by their willingness to fight. American troops, already serving as aid workers and local political advisors, found themselves teachers in a campaign against Afghan illiteracy as well as fighters against an elusive Taliban army.

They were helped by an improved intelligence system that had evolved from one designed to understand enemy tank armies to one that worked hard to understand local power structures and political relationships, and by a new weapon of war that put Taliban leaders at constant risk—armed drones.

These unmanned aircraft provided phenomenal loiter times, real-time intelligence on enemy operations, and precise firepower that did grave damage to Taliban chains of command. Drones were part of the intelligence apparatus that located Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in the spring of 2011. It was, however, Special Forces operators who used the intelligence they and other sources provided to kill him, marking a critical date in the by then decade-long war against al Qaeda.

Impressive as these accomplishments are—a learning Army and Marine Corps, an Air Force that increasingly relies upon unmanned aircraft to rule the skies, and Navy SEALs and other Special Operations Forces who conduct literally dozens of kill/capture operations nightly—the most remarkable fact of the past decade of war is that every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine who has served has been a volunteer.

When America created the All-Volunteer Force at the end of Vietnam, it could not have imagined that within a generation, volunteers would fight for 10 years in two protracted irregular wars—and with no signs of flagging. Recruiting and retention remain strong, with all services regularly meeting their goals for volunteers to fight for their nation in her hour of need.

We have asked a great deal of our volunteer force. Many have served multiple combat tours, putting strain on their families and their own mental well-being. Suicide among military veterans now exceeds the rate among the population as a whole. Our veterans of current wars are also unemployed at rates exceeding that of the general population. We have an obligation to these veterans who have volunteered to put themselves in harm’s way, and to their families, which also carry the scars of a decade of war. While many are stronger for trials they have endured, all have been forever changed—many with visible wounds, more with damage that is invisible to the naked eye but no less traumatic for being unseen.

As we draw down our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan—handing over control to increasingly capable local governments and security forces—and as we continue to pursue a diminished but still dangerous al Qaeda to the ends of the earth, we must hold in our hearts those who have paid a heavy price so that the rest of us can live in freedom. They have borne a heavy burden, and we cannot adequately repay them—but we can, and must, do all in our power to ease their cares after their exceptional service in this time of war.

The folks at Gibbs Technologies showed off their Phibian—an all-terrain vehicle that can drive right into a body of water and continue its work there—before the American Society of Naval Engineers conference Tuesday in Virginia.

Gibbs Technologies Chairman Neil Jenkins told London’s The Daily Mail that the vehicle would be especially useful to first responders.

“Natural disasters in recent memory, such as the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and elsewhere in Asia—as well as the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans—illustrate the need for amphibians as capable, versatile and efficient as Phibian,” Jenkins said.

Read more in There’s no escape from the Phibian, which can switch from highways to waterways at the touch of a button.

In other news around the military:

• Sergeant Ben Tomlinson—a Marine who was shot in the back in Afghanistan and now uses a wheelchair—was worried people would forget about him when he returned home to Jacksonville, Alabama. He couldn’t have been more wrong. The Associated Press chronicled how Jacksonville’s reaction to Tomlinson’s homecoming is being held up as an example of how to help veterans who return home injured.

• The U.S. and Japan say they are still pushing forward on plans to move a contingent of U.S. forces to Guam, despite the unresolved relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Japan. Stars and Stripes has the story.