Hafa adai!

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Andy McElyanie, B-52H Stratofortress long range bomber aircraft Deputy Mission Lead and Radar Navigator, 23rd Bomb Squadron (BS), 5th Operations Group (OG), 5th Bomb Wing (BW), Minot Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota (ND), performs final pre-flight safety checks at his station prior to departing Hickam AFB, Hawaii (HI) to fly back to the Bomber Forward Operating Location (BFOL), operated by the 36th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), after evacuating Guam because it was threatened by Typhoon Sudal

Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), Hawaii's Air Mobility Command (AMC) terminal is buzzing with family members from the island of Guam after a typhoon ravaged the little island

US Army (USA) Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (2/27) Charlie Company, 25th Infantry Division (ID) [Light], Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (HI), board a US Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-263 (HMM-263) at Polaris Point Guam Naval Station for transport to Tinian Island. This is part of an Airborne Insert onto an island during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

The LOS ANGELES class Attack Submarine USS TUCSON (SSN 770) glides past the mouth of Apra Harbor, Guam. The attack submarine has twelve launch missile tubes for Tomahawk cruise missiles to provide defense capabilities and retractable bow planes to give the vessel increased maneuverability. With it's stealth design, endurance, and mobility the TUCSON is able to operate in all ocean areas of the world. She is the 59th of her class and homeported out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii