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U.S. Marine Lance Corporals Eric Brady and Chad Mullin train with an 83 mm Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9). The GUAM is in transit to the Persian Gulf in response to a US Central Command (US CENTCOM) request for an increased military presence in the region. Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 13 February 1998

An elevated bow view of the submarine tender USS PROTEUS (AS 19) moored at Polaris Point, with submarines positioned alongside

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 Detachment 3, Naval Station Guam, rappel from an SH-60 Seahawk onto the flightdeck of the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) as an insertion exercise also known as "Fast Rope." This test of insertion capabilities is a quarterly requalification requirement for the unit

STAFF Sergeant Richard Pulaski, left, AIRMAN Christian Canada, AIRMAN Vincent Giasco and Sergeant William Reid mount an AIM-84A Harpoon missile on the wings pylon of a 60th Bombardment Squadron B-52G Stratofortress aircraft in preparation for a training exercise

A US Navy (USN) CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), makes it's final flight over the country side near Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. HC-5 is replacing its inventory of Sea Knight helicopters with Black Hawk helicopters

U.S. Air Force Security Police assigned to the 613th Security Forces Squadron, 613th Contingency Response Group, 36th Air Expeditionary Wing, armed with M4 Training Weapon and wearing paintball protective face mask, participate in 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) (RELEASED)

A US Air Force (USAF) B-52 Stratofortress Bomber deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana, takes off from Andersen AFB, Guam, in support of the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing's mission

A cargo lift is positioned in front of the cargo door of a 6th Air Refueling Squadron, 22nd Air Refueling Wing, KC-10A Extender aircraft during a Military Airlift Command channel cargo mission

Navy Lieutenant Adam Pacal, a flight surgeon from HMH-463, checks into the eyes of Kikuwo Kodeb, a diabetes patient in Peleliu in a community relations project 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)

World War II (WWII) era photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Frank B. Baldwin, taken at Russell Islands July 3, 1943 as he sits in the cockpit of a USMC F4U"CORSAIR"aircraft. 1LT Baldwin is an Ace Pilot credited with 10 kills

Major Francois Hebrard, (center) French Air Force New Caledonia, STAFF Sergeant Michelle Mister, and SENIOR AIRMAN Ebony Shephard, (right), both from the 13th Air Force, Andersen Air Force Base, troubleshoot the Majors presentation. PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY (PAR) 2001 is a PACAF-sponsored Military Airlift symposium for countries in the pacific region. PAR, held every two years and hosted by a pacific nation, this year Guam is the host nation with the symposium staging out of Andersen AFB. The symposium includes informational seminars with area of expertise briefings, a Command Post Exercise (CPX) which addresses military airlift support to a humanitarian airlift/disaster relief scenario...

World War II (WWII) era photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) William N. Case, Marine Fighter Squadron 214 (VMF-214)"Black Sheep"taken at Russell Islands, October 5, 1943. 1LT Case is an Ace Pilot credited with 8 kills