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Colonel Frank Hicks, Commanding Officer of Marine Forces, Operation PACIFIC HAVEN, says goodbye and thanks to the Marines of Charlie Company, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines. PACIFIC HAVEN provided over 6,000 pro-US Kurds from Northern Iraq humanitarian assistance and political asylum

A view of various flight deck activities aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9)

A B-52D Stratofortress aircraft, from Strategic Air Command, leave a smoke trail behind as they take off, one after another, for bombing missions over North Vietnam during Operation LINEBACKER

The 2nd Marine Division Band plays as the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit returns from duty in Beirut, Lebanon. They were a part of the United Nations peacekeeping force. The ship in front of the band is the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9)

A U.S. Navy tug boat lends a line to the KOREA SOUHT REPUBLIC CHANG BOGO (Type 209) CLASS (1200) submarine CHOI MUSON (SSK 063) as it enters into Apra Harbor, Guam. The CHOI MUSON along with her crew of 33, is the first South Korean submarine to visit the Island of Guam

US Marine Sergeant Mark J. Palmer (In black shorts and T-shirt), Jumpmaster, 3rd Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 3rd Support Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group, briefs Marines, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 5th Force Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, on the drop zones before they jump from a US Air Force C-141 Starlifter (Not shown) aircraft during the Force Reconnaissance Exercises

United States Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Larry Senst and SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Adam Ginett of the 36th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) flight, Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, prepare to detonate ordnance on the Tarague EOD range

US NAVY Admiral (ADM) Joseph W. Prueher, Commander in CHIEF U.S. Pacific Command, laughs with Kurdish evacuees while touring Andersen AFB, Guam, during OPERATION PACIFIC HAVEN. Pacific Haven, a joint humanitarian operation conducted by the U.S. Military, evacuated over 2,100 Kurds from Northern Iraq. The evacuees will be housed temporarily at Andersen AFB, Guam, while they go through the immigration process for residence into the United States

A motor whale boat from the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) returns to the ship. Alongside the BLUE RIDGE is a fuel barge, and an SH-3 Sea King from the Seventh Fleet command flies overhead

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) board the US Navy (USN) Dock Landing Ship, USS HARPERS FERRY (LSD 49) at Apra Harbor, Guam, during the Amphibious Ready Groups Spring Patrol

GUNNERY SGT. Rome M. Holcomb from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron Five Three Three (VMFA-533) conducts post flight checks on one of four F-18 "Hornet" fighters at Rock Hampton Airport, Australia, on April 29, 2001. The Hornets flew in from Guam to participate in "Exercise TANDEM THRUST," a combined US and Australian military training exercise. The biannual exercise is held in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay training area, Queensland, Australia. More than 27,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines are participating, with Canadian units taking part as opposing forces. The purpose of the exercise is to train for crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations

U.S. Navy PETTY Officer 2nd Class Diana Rodriguez, a Medical Laboratory Technician, works a specimen analysis at the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, Branch Medical Clinic laboratory located on Naval Base Guam. Rodriguez performs routine tests in the laboratory to provide data for use in diagnosis and treatment of patients. (U.S. Navy PHOTO by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class John F. Looney) (Released)