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A US Navy (USN) MH-60S Seahawk helicopter is directed onto the flight deck aboard the USN Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship, USS SAIPAN (LHA 2). The helicopter is performing "touch and go" training in order for the squadron and the ship to meet qualification standards to maintain deployment readiness

U.S. Navy line handlers from the Harpers Ferry Class Dock Landing Ship USS OAK HILL (LSD 51) assist in raising the brow of the Whidbey Island Class Ship USS ASHLAND (LSD 48) as she prepares to deploy on November 16, 2006. The ASHLAND will relieve Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST Second Class (AW/SW) Pamela Coxe) (Released)

Crewmen and Marines run on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) during morning physical training (PT)

AIRMAN 1ST Class Duane Dowdy services a piece of aerospace ground equipment (AGE). He is assigned to the 43rd Field Maintenance Squadron AGE branch. Exact Date Shot Unknown

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) John Beldin, Weapons Loader, assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing (BW), installs a Conventional Air Launch Cruise Missile into the weapons bay of a USAF B-52H Stratofortress aircraft while deployed with the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

U.S. Air Force SENIOR Airmen John Miller assigned to the 613th Security Forces Squadron, 613th Contingency Response Group, 36th Air Expeditionary Wing, is armed with an M4 Training Weapon and wears a paintball protective face mask, during a convoy training exercise held at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on September 7, 2004. Members of the 613th Security Forces Squadron are training with Sim-munition rounds, which are a detergent, based 9mm round fired through a modified M4 carbine receiver. This gives a more realistic training environment as the rounds travel 400ft a second leaving a small color marking when a target is hit. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Bennie J. Davis III)...

Guamanian women wait at Naval Station Guam to welcome the crew of the combat stores ship USS NIAGARA FALLS (AFS 3) into port

The Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter (right), Secretary of the U.S. Navy (SECNAV), speaks with Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, during a meet and greet breakfast at Camp Covington Galley onboard Naval Base Guam. The Seabees are currently deployed to Guam on Aug. 25, 2006. They also have detachments deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class John F. Looney) (Released)

The Soviet Moma class intelligence collection ship ARKHIPELAG observes the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2), background, during NATO Exercise Northern Wedding '86

A locking storage rack aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) that has been modified to accept the M249 squad automatic weapon (SAW) and the M16A2 rifle

A starboard bow view of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during maritime interdiction operations

A starboard view of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during maritime interdiction operations