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AIRMAN 1ST Class Homer Shumake, left, and AIRMAN 1ST Class Terry Price, maintenance specialists with the 320th Bomb Wing, repair an engine on a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft during Exercise Giant Warrior '89

US Navy (USN) personnel carry an Indonesian patient to a USN MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 5 (HC-5), Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, for a medical evacuation flight from Tentera Nasional Indonesia Military Hospital, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH-19) [not shown] for treatment. The MERCY is currently off the waters of Indonesia in support of Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the Tsunami that struck Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004

A US Navy (USN) CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), lands for the last time at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. HC-5 is replacing its inventory of Sea Knight helicopters with Black Hawk helicopters

Near several parked US Air Force (USAF) B-52 Stratofortress bombers, a B-1B Lancer Bomber, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, takes off from Andersen AFB, Guam, in support of the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing's mission

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 is prepared for takeoff from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during operations off the coast of Lebanon

Crewmembers of the Landing Craft, Air Cushioned (LCAC) 57 offloads an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) on the Inner Apra Harbor, Guam, in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Over the South Pacific a US Air Force (USAF) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, 941st AWACS prepares to make contact with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 909th Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), Kadena Air Base (AB), Okinawa. The aircraft are participating in the joint Exercise TANDEM THRUST 03, a joint exercise conducted in the Marianas Islands to include Guam and Tinian. The exercise is a joint endeavor to include forces from the US, Canada, and Australia

Private First Class Robert C. Thornton from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's (MEU) security platoon talks with a local television crew during the media day held for Training in an Urban Environment Exercise (TRUEX) 99-2. The training is conducted to prepare 31st MEU Marines on the unique situations encountered when operating in urban environments and performing missions including non-combatant evacuations, humanitarian assistance and show-of-force operations

A TMS 870 "Grove" 70-ton truck mounted hydraulic crane is use to offload equipment from the USS FORT MCHENRY (LSD 43) moored to the Sierra Pier on Guam, during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 99

Upon his retirement after completing 30 years of service, CSM Jose G.C. Palau receives the Legion of Merit from COL William J. Stephens, Commander, U.S. Army Communications Command, Operations Command, in a ceremony at the Pentagon

A port view of the fleet oiler USS CIMARRON (AO 177) underway

A port bow view of the frigate USS BADGER (FF 1071) moored at a pier