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US Army, (USA) personnel assigned to the 21st Signal Battalion, Fort Richardson, Alaska place the finishing touches on camouflaged netting use to cover the communication center at Orote Point, Guam during Exercise TANDEM THRUST 99

Members of 200th and 201st Red Horse Air National Guard, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Columbus, Ohio, install wall board to create rooms for families in an old dorm at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to provide temporary housing for victims of Typhoon Paka

A sailor helps a young evacuee check on one of hundreds of pets arriving through customs during the evacuation of thousands of military and civilian personnel from the Philippine Islands. The evacuation, part of Operation Fiery Vigil, is the result of the June 10 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which deposited more than four inches of volcanic ash on the Islands, disrupting base operations

Refueling crewmen refuel a UH-1N Iroquois helicopter aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9)

Flight operations take place aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) off the coast of Grenada during Operation URGENT FURY. Visible on the flight deck is a UH-1N Iroquois helicopter and a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter

Shown is the front gate of the housing area in Tiyan, Guam, operated and maintained by US Marine Forces during 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

COL Meyers, commander of the 43rd Strategic Wing, greets LTC Kenneth J. Hacker, commander of the 37th Bomb Squadron. LTC Hacker arrived at the base aboard a B-52H Stratofortress aircraft to participate in Exercise Glad Customer '82

U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 613th Security Forces Squadron, 613th Contingency Response Group, load their cargo and equipment on a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam on Dec. 29, 2004 before deploying to Thailand in support of tsunami relief operations. The Airmen are bound for Southeast Asia as part of a disaster relief operation following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia causing a tsunami that have affected 12 countries and has killed at least 100,000 people. (USAF PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Bennie J. Davis III) (Released)

Two US Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18D Hornets, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (All Weather)-224 (VMFA(AW)-224), Iwakuni, Japan, take off from Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during Exercise COPE NORTH. COPE NORTH is an exercise that includes troops from the US Air Force, US Marines, and US Navy training with troops from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF)

A US Air Force (USAF) Contractor for the Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), 36th Wing, Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), takes pictures and evaluates a test of the High Expansion (HI-EX) foam system used for fire protection inside aircraft hangars. The Jet Ex foam produced by the Ansul Corporation covers the hangar up to twelve feet high preventing the spread of fire

A starboard bow view of the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), being assisted by tugboats, while underway transiting the harbor at Apra Harbor, Naval Station Guam, after arriving for a one-day stop to give the crew a break and pick up Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 (NMCB-40). The USNS MERCY is currently conducting a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia

Marines load a Howitzer aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during Exercise SOLID SHIELD '87