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A CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) during operations off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

A B-1B aircraft passes over the ocean while on a flight out of Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, during Exercise Giant Warrior '89

View of some of the defensive cave fortifications built by forced Chamorro labor during World War II as part of the Japanese defense of the Apra Harbor shoreline. The caves were fortified with 75mm guns and other smaller caliber weapons

US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Terry Cree, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rilfe/M203 40 mm grenade launcher, escorts civilian and dependent evacuees to a landing zone during a simulated non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) at US Naval Forces Marianas Support Activity, Guam. The simulated NEO is part of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003, a joint military endeavor including forces from the United States, Canada and Australia

A Minuteman III missile is test launched from Launch Facility 04. The missile traveled approximately 4200 miles in twenty minutes to the Kwajalein Missile Range in Marshall Islands. The test is conducted to prove the reliability of land based nuclear missiles

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 from MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) David Williams 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 quartermaster working on the bridge of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) uses a drafting machine as he plots the ship's course. The GUAM is returning to Naval Station, Norfolk, Va., following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

Major General Wayne E. Rollings, Commanding General, Third Marine Expeditonary Force, talks with officers and staff of Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, during his visit to the housing area in Tiyan, Guam, during Operation PACIFIC HAVEN. PACIFIC HAVEN provided Kurdish evacuees political asylum from Iraq. While on Guam, the Kurds are provided shelter, food, clothing, medical care and assimilation classes for life in the United States

United States Air Force Captain Mike Wollet, left, Captain Jay Clark, center, Major Dean Steele, fly a C-17 Globemaster aircraft loaded with humanitarian earthquake relief cargo bound for India

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Elias Guereca, 613th Contingency Response Group (CRG), Security Forces Squadron (SFS), verbally communicates with his team members while performing a simulated attack on an urban terrorist target during a Special Reaction Team (SRT) Exercise held in the jungles of Guam. The SRT Exercise consists of Military Operation Urban Terrain (MOUT) training, sniper training, navigation training, and breaching techniques. The 613th CRG conducts these exercises twice a month

Equipment and appliances are stacked outside the damaged Four Seasons Store in the aftermath of Typhoon Omar. The storm struck on August 29th, causing severe damage to Andersen; Naval Station, Guam; and the surrounding area

Sixteen different U.S. Air Force 36th Air Expeditionary Wing squadron teams pay respect to the flag during the National Anthem at Arch Light Memorial Park, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Jan. 14, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Bennie J. Davis, III) (RELEASED)