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US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Oscar Hurtado from the 7th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron (EMXS), packs a drag-chute for a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam

Photographers and crewmen aboard the docked combat stores ship USS NIAGRA FALLS (AFS 3) observe welcoming activities for the ship. The NIAGARA FALLS has just arrived at Naval Station Guam

Lance CPL. David Bauman, 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, hold a Kurdish new born baby during the festivities of Eid-af-altar. This is a Muslim tradition that celebrates the end of Ramadan, a month long holiday that entails fasting, and spiritual enlightenment

A port beam view of a Japanese freighter underway, taken from the salvage ship USS BOLSTER (ARS 38). Majuro is a large Japanese shipping port

A ground crew member signals to the pilot of a Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 50 (VRC-50) S-3A Viking aircraft as it is positioned on the flight line. The squadron will be relocating to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, following closure of NAS, Cubi Point and Naval Station, Subic Bay. Control of the instrallations will be assumed by the Subic Bay Metropolitian Authority

Russian Federated Navy (RFN) Line handlers onboard the Udaloy Class Guided Missile Destroyer MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV heave in on the mooring lines as the ship gets underway at Santa Rita Naval Base, Guam (GU) to participate in Passing Exercise 2006 (PASSEX 06). The SHAPOSHNIKOV, is one of four RFN ships participating with US Navy (USN) ships off the coast of Guam in the exercise designed to increase interoperability between the two navies while enhancing the strong cooperative relationship between Russia and the US

Members of a damage control team, wearing protective helmets, relay information from a firefighting party chief petty officer by means of sound-powered phones as they take in a firefighting drill aboard the amphibous assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9)

A Navy diver from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One is fitted with a Mark 12 dive helmet in the dive platform workshop. The diver is preparing to study the wreck of the World War II Japanese merchant ship KIZUGAWA MARU as part of Project Sea Mark, a four-year undersea survey and mapping study of naval historic sites. The study is being conducted in conjuction with the U.S. Park Service's Submerged Cultural Resource Unit

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

At Air Force Base (AFB) Louis Trichardt, South Africa, US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Brian Manibusan, from Guam, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing (FW), Equipment Maintenance Squadron (EMS) and other members of his unit install conventional munitions onto an F-15 Strike Eagle, for a training mission over a South African Air Force (SAAF) bomb range

A UH-1 Iroquois helicopter is silhouetted by the sun as another UH-1 prepares to land on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9). The ship is providing support to US Marines deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A close-up view of damage sustained by Trader Andy's Hut, a pierside bar and grill, during an earthquake that struck the region on August 8th