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United States Navy, Aviation Ordnancemen move weapons, in a shipping container, from one of the ship's elevators to a waiting AH-1 "Sea Cobra" attack helicopter. A UH-1N "Huey" is in background. On board the USS GUAM (LPH 9) an amphibious assault ship currently in the Persian Gulf as part of an increased military presence to enforce U.N. sanctions against Iraq

Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo of Guam watches as Colonel J. Karl Miller, with Sergeant Major Ables assisting, presents the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal to Vincente Borja. Borja is one of 34 recipients of the medals being presented during a Veterans Day memorial service held at Skinner Plaza

Flight deck crewmen remove tie-down chains from a UH-1N Iroquois helicopter aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9)

A ground crewman marshals a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft into a parking position. The aircraft, assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing, is participating in Exercise Glad Customer '82

Two F-4 Phantoms from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) 83rd Wing, Naha, Okinawa, prepare to take off in the background while two US Navy (USN) EA-6B Intruders, Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 128 (VAQ-128), Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Washington (WA), are prepped for take off at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam in support of exercise COPE NORTH. COPE NORTH is an exercise where troops from the US Air Force (USAF), US Navy (USN), and US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines train with troops from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF)

Approved insignia for: Guam Air National Guard

Lieutenant Colonel Nakatsu Kiyotoshi, and Lieutenant Colonel Tadashi Hattori, of the Japanese Army, stand at the memorial of the war dogs on the Guam Navel Base during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. KOA THUNDER is an exercise involving elements of 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), and 3rd Marine Division, where Marines conduct an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). The Aviation Support Element (ASE) from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will be tested on command and control of several different missions, to include Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personal (TRAP), airfield seizures, and a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)

Distinguished guests in attendance at the Congressional Medal of Honor Monument dedication ceremony include Commodore Dale N. Hagen, right, commander, Naval Base Guam. The three officers to the left are members of Republic of Korea Navy. The monument was erected to honor four Marines for heroism during World War II

A port beam view of the destroyer USS ELLIOTT (DD-967) moored in the harbor

Colonel J. P. Faulkner, 22nd MAU commanding officer, and Captain J. M. Quarterman, USS GUAM (LPH 9) commanding offier, accept flags from the final runners as they cross the finish line during the GUAM`s "Run Across the Atlantic". The trans-Atlantic marathon began April 20th in Rota, Spain, and ended May 1st inside the 3-mile limit near Morehead City, North Carolina. A row of CH-46 Sea Knights are on the deck

A view of Strategic Air Command's parked B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, prior to their participation in Linebacker Operations over North Vietnam

A UH-1 Iroquois helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9), during operations off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon