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SRA Eric Ruiter, a security policeman from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii demonstrates a little American culture for Kurdish children with some "low fives." The children, airlifted from Turkey, were part of Operation Pacific Haven, a U.S. State Department-directed action aimed at evacuating Kurds and other Iraqi opposition groups from the Middle East country's turmoil. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine June 1977

A C-130 Hercules turboprop aircraft from VMGR-152, 1ST Marine Air Wing, Okinawa, Japan, lands on the island of Peleliu during 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

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Andy McElyanie, B-52H Stratofortress long range bomber aircraft Deputy Mission Lead and Radar Navigator, 23rd Bomb Squadron (BS), 5th Operations Group (OG), 5th Bomb Wing (BW), Minot Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota (ND), performs final pre-flight safety checks at his station prior to departing Hickam AFB, Hawaii (HI) to fly back to the Bomber Forward Operating Location (BFOL), operated by the 36th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), after evacuating Guam because it was threatened by Typhoon Sudal

US Army (USA) Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (2/27) Charlie Company, 25th Infantry Division (ID) [Light], Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (HI), apply camouflage before being picked as part of an Airborne Insert on an island during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), Hawaii's Air Mobility Command (AMC) terminal is buzzing with family members from the island of Guam after a typhoon ravaged the little island

US Army (USA) Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (2/27) Charlie Company, 25th Infantry Division (ID) [Light], Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (HI), board a US Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-263 (HMM-263) at Polaris Point Guam Naval Station for transport to Tinian Island. This is part of an Airborne Insert onto an island during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

An aerial portside silhouette of the US Navy (USN) Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier USS RANGER (CV 61), with her Sailors manning the rails and aircraft of the Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) on her deck, as she arrives at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI)

A display of a recent finding of bones by the Army Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii is laid out on white covered tables. A staff member explains them to a small group including Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall and Medal of Honor recipient, Red Erwin. The are here for the 50th anniversary commemoration of World War II

A port bow view of the frigate USS BARBEY (FF-1088) underway en route to Hawaii

STAFF Sergeant Michael J. Sherbourne, Element Leader, 15th Security Forces Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, gives a briefing to flight line security personnel deployed to Navy Support Facility (NFS) Diego Garcia to as part of the Second Air Expeditionary Group prior to a shift change. The Second Air Expeditionary Group is in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH involves patrolling the no-fly zone in southern Iraq

The US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) (foreground right), is pictured among the multi-national ships moored side-by-side at Naval Base (NB) Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI), while participating the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2006 Exercise, the world's largest biennial maritime exercise. RIMPAC 2006 brings together military forces from Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom and the US

A view of several mothballed service vessels at anchor near Beckoning Point in the Middle Loch. Included are refrigerated covered lighters (YFRNs) and floating drydocks