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A C-130 Hercules turboprop aircraft from VMGR-152, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, lands on the island of Peleliu during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. 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

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

US Army (USA) Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (2/27) Charlie Company, 25th Infantry Division (ID) [Light], Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (HI), apply camouflage before being picked as part of an Airborne Insert on an island during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

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

[Earthquake] Kapaau, HI, October 25, 2006 - DOT crews examine a crack that split the pavement at Pololu Lookout after two earthquakes struck the Big Island of Hawaii. Adam DuBrowa/FEMA.

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

No. 39L. Mahukona Harbor, Island of Hawaii, T.H