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Major Steve Andrews, Officer in Charge of the Civil Affairs office, Tiyan, Guam, is interviewed by a local television station concerning the Guam Department of Educations donation of desks, chairs, and classroom materials to the school on Tiyan for the Kurdish evacuee children during Operation PACIFIC HAVEN. PACIFIC HAVEN provided Kurdish evacuees political asylum from Iraq. While on Guam, the Kurds are provided shelter, food, clothing, medical care and assimilation classes for life in the United States

A port bow view of the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), moored to the pier at Apra Harbor, Naval Station Guam, after arriving for a one-day stop to give the crew a break and pick up Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 (NMCB-40). The USNS MERCY is currently conducting a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia

A member of the Guam Detachment of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5, points to a projectile uncovered during digging at a construction site. The Guam Police Department called in the unit to inspect the projectile, a 5-inch Japanese live round remaining from World War II

Dr. Dana Braner (left), Project HOPE (a civilian organization of medical volunteers), assisted by US Navy (USN) Information Systems Technician Second Class (IT2) Sheronda Allen, carry an Indonesian child in respiratory distress from a USN MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 5 (HC-5), Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, onboard the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19). The child was medically evacuated from the island of Nias, Indonesia to the ship, where MERCY's medical personnel are conducting humanitarian assistance operations in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck the island on March 28, 2005

Colonel (COL) Arnald D. Gabriel, commander and conductor of the US Air Force Band, and his wife Renee Channey attend his retirement ceremony

A port bow view of the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-191) underway in the Mariana Islands near Guam during exercise Tempo Brave '94. The BLUE RIDGE is the Seventh Fleet flagship and is forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan

An island resident sits at the operator's station on an excavator as a Seabee from Construction Battalion Unit 3 (CBU-3) backs the vehicle around a hole. Seabees from CBU-3 are working with island residents to make improvements on a school as part of a civic action proejct

STAFF Sergeant Ben Erck, electric power production, 15th Civil Engineering Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, takes a short break while hooking up Mobil Emergency Power units that will power base housing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, after Typhoon Paka

Fisheye lens view showing US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing (BW), preparing to launch at USAF B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, on the flight line at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam

The unveiling of the Congressional Medal of Honor Monument takes place during a dedication ceremony. The monument honors four Marines for heroism above and beyond the call of duty while fighting the Japanese during World War II. They are Captain Louis Wilson, Jr., Private First Class (PFC) Leonard Mason, PFC Luther Skaggs and PFC Frank Witek

Captain John Keane, SENIOR Arabic Linguistic, Combat Service Support Detachment 37, in support of Operation PACIFIC HAVEN, holds a conversation with Kurdish evacuees during their festivities of Eid-af-altar. This is a Muslim tradition that celebrates the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting and gaining spiritual enlightenment. PACIFIC HAVEN provided Kurdish evacuees political asylum from Iraq. While on Guam, the Kurds are provided shelter, food, clothing, medical care and assimilation classes for life in the United States

A member of a naval mobile construction battalion uses a grinder to shave down a steel bar