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An aerial photograph of Marbo Annex on the island of Guam taken from a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter from HMH-463, Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. Marbo Annex was used as a landing zone during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe 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

The US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit, Spirit of Kitty Hawk, Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), Missouri (MO), arrives at Andersen AFB, Guam, for Operation CORONET DRAGON 49. The forward deployment exercise features the Spirit and provides training for the pilots and crewmembers of Whiteman AFB

US Navy (USN) Sailors and Russian Sailors with the Russian Federated Navy (RFN) visiting the island of Guam (GU), at a Moral Welfare and Recreation-sponsored barbeque held at Gab Gab Beach at Naval Base (NB) Guam. The Sailors are mixing as they participate in PASSEX 06, an exercise designed to increase interoperability between the two navies while enhancing the strong cooperative relationship between Russia and the United States

US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) General (GEN) Mike DeCuir, Director of Air and Space Operations (ASO), Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), receives training on an ejection seat at Barksdale Air Force Base's new B-52H Stratofortress egress trainer in preparation for a flight to Andersen AFB, Guam (GU)

A fire control technician performs preventive maintenance on one of the 20mm Mark 15 Phalanx close-in weapons systems (CIWS) on the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9)

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