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US Marine Corps (USMC) Captain (CPT) Christopher Wills (second from left), Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion (BN), 4th Marine Regiment (MAR RGT), Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), briefs his Marines prior to a training mission. The Marines are conducting urban terrain combat training in a former US Air Force (USAF) housing area near Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during joint Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Marines from Weapons Platoon, Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, were pulled from mess duty and liberty to help in a Marine Joint Task Force cleaning operation during a brush fire in the Apra Heights area

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Billy Weinstein from the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), Fire Protection Flight stationed at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, gets help putting on his Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) from another firefighter during a fuel tank fire at the Cabras Island tank farm

Crates of supplies are loaded aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) prior to the vessel's departure for the Middle East in support of Operation DESERT SHIELD

US Navy Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Cordell greets the first group of Kurdish children arriving on board Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, during evacuation of refugees from Northern Iraq. Operation PACIFIC HAVEN represents a series of airlifts designed to provide sanctuary for some 2,400 refugees fleeing Iraq. Many are considered traitors by the Iraqi Government for working with the CIA-funded Iraqi National Congress and international humanitarian agencies. The Kurds will be housed at Andersen AFB, while they go through the immigration process for residence in the United States

Kurdish children play at a playground near the family housing complex used as their temporary lodging at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during Operation PACIFIC HAVEN. The operation, a joint humanitarian effort conducted by the US military, entails the evacuation of over 2,400 Kurds from northern Iraq to avoid retaliation from Iraq for working with the US government and international humanitarian agencies. The Kurds will be housed at Andersen AFB, while they go through the immigration process for residence in the United States

Aerial view of the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) maneuvering as it prepares to enter Apra Harbor, Guam for a scheduled port visit

Derivatives of the US Navy (USN) P-3 Orion Aircraft representing the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CP-140 Aurora (left), 407th Maritime Patrol Squadron, British Columbia, and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-3C/AP-3C Orion, 92nd Wing, RAAF Maritime Patrol Group (MPG), RAAF Edinburgh, South Australia, sit on the flightline at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. At the end of the line, a USN P-3 Orion aircraft, Patrol Squadron 9 (VP-9), Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The aircraft are on station to participate in the joint exercise TANDEM THRUST 03, a joint US, Canada, and Australia exercise conducted in the Marianas islands to include Guam and Tinian

A mother waves from the pier as her son departs for the Persian Gulf aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9), one of several ships deploying from Norfolk in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The large harbor tugs WATHENA (YTB-825) and ANOKE (YTB-810) are maneuvering the vessel away from the pier

A woman shops in the commissary at Santo Stefano, a island between the Sardinian coastal town of Palau and the island of La Maddalena. The commissary serves military personnel from Naval Station La Maddalena, who must use a ferry to get to the island

A flight deck crewman signals to a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter as it takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9), during operations off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

At Dyess Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, a B-1B Lancer bomber from the 9th Bomb Squadron (BS), takes off on a deployment to Guam in support of our defensive posture in the Pacific region