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Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo of Guam shakes hands with one of the 34 recipients of the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal during a Veterans Day memorial service held at Skinner Plaza

Two crewmen discuss their duties on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9), as two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters are prepared for takeoff during operations off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

US Army (USA) Cadet Lindsey Rowland, University of Hawaii (HI), throws a training grenade during an Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Challenge at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU)

CAPT. James Herrin, pilot, and LT. Jason Walls, co-pilot, eat lunch aboard their KC-135A Stratotanker aircraft enroute to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. The plane will later continue on to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. Both Herrin and Walls are members of the 924th Air Refueling Squadron

STAFF Sergeant Tim Snyder, Structural Journeyman, 201st Red Horse Air National Guard, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Columbus, Ohio, moves boards that will be used to convert old dorms at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into temporary housing for victims of Typhoon Paka

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squdron 261 takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9). The ship is participating in operations off the coast of Lebanon

A starboard bow view of the USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC 19) being assisted by two tugboats while docking at the Sierra Pier, Guam during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 99

SGT. Debbie Whitacre, 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, prepares to launch a dropsonde sensor from a WC-130 Hercules aircraft to measure a typhoon's speed and direction. The information will be relayed to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

United States Air Force (USAF) Captain (CAPT) Scott Ulmer of the 35th Fighter Wing (FW) Misawa, Japan, prepares to taxis his F-16 Falcon on the Andersen Air Force Base (AFB) runway, on Guam, in support of Exercise COPE NORTH 2002

SRA Bruce Tilley displays a fishing trophy

View of a section of the old Japanese refueling piers used during World War II. The piers were later used by the liberating American troops to offload supplies after the liberation of Guam in July 1944. In the background is a Military Sealift Command (MSC) oiler in a floating dry dock. The importance of Naval Station Guam has greatly increased since the closing of Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines

US Air Force (USAF) members from the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), from Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, install washers and dryers in a temporary laundry facility created after the damaging super-typhoon Pongsona hit the island