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A US Air Force (USAF) Contractor for the Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), 36th Wing, Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), takes pictures and evaluates a test of the High Expansion (HI-EX) foam system used for fire protection inside aircraft hangars. The Jet Ex foam produced by the Ansul Corporation covers the hangar up to twelve feet high preventing the spread of fire

A starboard bow view of the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), being assisted by tugboats, while underway transiting the harbor 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

Marines load a Howitzer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during Exercise SOLID SHIELD '87

Crew members execute a foreign object damage walk-down on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9)

Hundreds of military and civilian personnel from the Philippine Islands wait in lines during evacuation processing. The evacuation is the result of the June 10 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which deposited more than four inches of volcanic ash on the Islands. More than 20,000 evacuees have been removed from the area as a part of the U.S. military's Operation Fiery Vigil

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Corporal (CPL) Paul Edwin, 10th Squadron, RAAF Edinburgh, South Australia, checks the lines in the wheel well of a RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft as it sits on the flightline at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. The aircraft and crew are on station to participate in the joint exercise TANDEM THRUST 03, a joint US, Canada, and Australia exercise conducted in the Marianas islands to include Guam and Tinian

US Air Force personnel use forklifts to unload Mark 52 air-delivered underwater mines from a pallet during Exercise TEAM SPIRIT'86

A master-at-arms inspects a family's luggage following their arrival at a temporary evacuation center during Operation Fiery Vigil. The center was set up to process military dependents who were evacuated from the Philippines after volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo disrupted operations at Clark Air Base and Naval Station, Subic Bay.

US Navy (USN) CHIEF Hospital Corpsman (HMC) Patrick Nardulli, Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), talks to one of two Australian Navy patients medically evacuated to an airfield in Nias aboard a USN MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 5 (HC-5), Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, embarked onboard MSC Combat Stores Ship USNS NIAGARA FALLS (T-AFS 3) [not shown]. The USN helicopter crew, accompanied by medical personnel assigned to MERCY, evacuated two survivors of April 2, 2005 crash of a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Sea King helicopter in Nias, Indonesia. At request of government of Indonesia, MERCY and...

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, answers a question during a press briefing, at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, on Nov. 14, 2003. (DoD photo by TECH. SGT. Andy Dunaway) (Released)

Typhoon victims are bussed in from schools used as shelters to temporary housing in converted dorms at Andersen Air Force Base south, Guam, after Super Typhoon Paka destroyed or badly damaged their homes. Here they may have a bit more privacy and better facilities as well as freeing up schools to begin classes in January

US Navy (USN) PETTY Officer Second Class (PO2) Justin Birch, utilizes a portable field radio to talk communicate with a USN MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25), as Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Sailors and USN Sailors conduct rappel training during a Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique (HRST) training exercise held at Polaris Point, Santa Rita Naval Base, Guam (GU), during the Annual Multi-national Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Exercise known as TRICARB 2006." The Exercise brings together EOD Units from the US, Australia and Singapore