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A Kurdish woman relaxes outside a family housing complex used as her temporary lodging at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during Operation PACIFIC HAVEN. The operation, a joint humanitarian effort conducted by the US military, entails the evacuation of over 2,400 Kurds from northern Iraq to avoid retaliation from Iraq for working with the US government and international humanitarian agencies. The Kurds will be housed at Andersen AFB, while they go through the immigration process for residence in the United States

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

Members of the 43rd Munitions Maintenance Squadron prepare to load Mark 52 training mines onto a 43rd Strategic Wing B-52G Stratofortress aircraft during Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '85

A Landing Vehicle Tracked (Armored)(Mark 1), LVT(A)-1 left after the Battle of Peleliu during World War Two on the island of Peleliu. Photograph taken as part of 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

Squadron Leaders, B.S. Kanwar, (left), Indian Air Force, and Shaheed Al-mamun, Bangladesh Air Force along with Flight Lieutenant Martyn Silver, (right), Royal Australian Air Force exchanges ideas about flightline activities in preparation for PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY 2001 on Andersen AFB, Guam. PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY (PAR) is a PACAF-sponsored Military Airlift symposium for countries in the pacific region. PAR, held every two years and hosted by a pacific nation, this year Guam is the host nation with the symposium staging out of Andersen AFB. The symposium includes informational seminars with area of expertise briefings, a Command Post Exercise (CPX) which addresses military airlift support...

Harbor tugs position the cable transport ship USNS FURMAN (T-AK 280)

A CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during flight operations off the coast of Beirut. The ship is providing support to US Marines deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

Personnel of the 43rd Munitions Maintenance Squadron prepares to load a Mark 82 500-pound high-drag bomb aboard a B-52G Stratofortress aircraft of the 60th Bomber Squadron during Exercise HARVEST COCONUT

A starboard bow view of the repair ship USS JASON (AR 8) as the vessel enters the harbor

An aerial photograph of Marbo Annex on the island of Guam taken from a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter from HMH-463, Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. Marbo Annex was used as a landing zone during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe 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

Flight deck crewmen hose down a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter upon its landing aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during Operation URGENT FURY. The helicopter's engine was hit by anti-aircraft fire on the island of Grenada

The combat stores ship USS NIAGARA FALLS (AFS 3) enters Apra Harbor while en route to Naval Station Guam. The ship is preceded by a tug spouting water. The man-made Glas Breakwater is visible in the background