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The Fall 2026 Education Guide is available! ⭐🏫

Created for service members, mil spouses and military-connected families, the guide offers info on higher education, the Post-9/11 GI Bill, college life tips + supporting long-term career goals.

Read it now:
www.stripes.com/epaper/speci... #Flashes

MEET TAMBO🌟

K-9 Tambo spent his career as an Explosive Detection K9 within the DoD Intelligence Community, protecting events across D.C. When a career-ending injury forced his retirement, Tambo faced extensive treatment and emergency surgery, and then courageously lived with cancer. #Flashes

MEET K9 LEA🌟

While the world watches history unfold at the Super Bowl and the Presidential Inauguration, K9 Lea is focused on what no one else can see.

As an explosive detection K9 with the Coast Guard, Lea has swept the grounds of Washington, D.C., and even the FIFA World Cup. #Flashes

MEET SAGE 🌟

Sage serves as the Expeditionary Facility Dog aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, where she just completed a record-breaking deployment of more than 11 months at sea.

Her mission is entirely focused on the ship’s crew. #Flashes

Voting for American Humane's Hero Dog Awards is now open!

Read the heroic tales of military working dogs, therapy pups, first responder canines, and more. Then, vote for who you think should take the top spot. 🏆🐾

🔗👉 www.americanhumane.org/what-we-do/c... #Flashes

QUICK TRIP 🛅 | You can hear Japan’s national instrument and see craftsmen build them at Tamashige Koto Workshop in Ube, about 90 minutes’ drive from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.

Check it out:
www.stripes.com/living/pacif... #Flashes

Another view of the sunset, from the camera.

#fireinthesky #sky #sunset #nyc #reflections
#blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #flashes

Suppose I'm figuring out just how claustrophobic I can get these to feel. And there's that green again

#art #flashes #contemporaryart #patreon #artsky #macro #photography #abstract #minerals #color #EastCoastKin
#ECK #pghartist #pittsburghartist

GALLERY: Airmen from the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing received a warm welcome home after deploying first to the Caribbean and then to the Middle East as part of Operation Epic Fury.

Family and friends welcomed them back. See photos:
www.stripes.com/branches/air... #Flashes

Little Hell Gate Marsh was a pretty toxic dump when I first saw it, covered in dodgy oil drums, rusting appliances, car tires, you name it.

They’ve really managed to bring it back - now it’s used to teach city kids about salt marshes.

#nature #blueskyartshow #flashes #citylife