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FEMA generators stand ready for transport back to FEMA warehouses in Hawaii, Guam, and California after months of use on the island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. These generators were used for emergency power at 96 key facilities throughout the Island immediately after Typhoon Soudelor struck the island in August.

Post route map of the territory of Hawaii, Samoan Islands and the Island of Guam : showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the1st of October, 1914 / published by order of Postmaster General A.S. Burleson

Lance Corporal (LCpl) Micheal Schrum, A-gunner, and LCpl Kenneth Konopka, gunner, from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, India Company, set up M224 60mm morters in preperation for an airfield seizure during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. KOA THUNDER is an exercise involving elements of 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), and 3rd Marine Division, where Marines conduct an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). The Aviation Support Element (ASE) from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will be tested on command and control of several different missions, to include Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personal (TRAP), airfield seizures, and a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)

Lance Corporal Drue N. McIver and Corporal Kenny Carlyle, from HMH-463 Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, put a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that was disassembled so it could be transported to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, back together as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001 at Anderson Air Force Base. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps' ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan

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