ALT U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Misheff flies the American flag from the back of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter over southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2014

ALT US soldier manning an M2 machine gun mounted to an MATV in Manbij, Syria, 2018

ALT US Troops in Iraq posing with the American flag in front of a mural of Saddam Hussein, 2003

ALT US Marines (BLT 1/1 - 15 MEU) raising the American flag at Camp Rhino in Afghanistan, 2001

ALT American Soldiers in Kosovo, as part of the NATO KFOR peacekeeping mandate, 1999

ALT US Troops outside Kuwait City during the Gulf War, 1991

ALT US Troops with the American flag, and a captured Panamanian flag during the Invasion of Panama, 1989

ALT A US Navy sailor with an M2 machine gun aboard a landing craft near the Egyptian coast during Exercise Bright Star 85, 1985

ALT US Marines in Beirut during the barracks bombing, 1983