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A1C Donald Popp, 8th Mobile Aerial Port Squadron, repairs suspension lines on parachute prior to attaching packages to be delivered during Christmas Drop. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

MASTER SGT. Edward Sanders (left) a mechanic from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas works on a forklift alternator with Chuuk mechanic, Naphan Aliven (center) and trainee, Joseph Aiten. SGT. Sanders is a member of a thirteen man civic-action team, on 8-months temporary duty, and chartered to enhance the socio-economic development of Chuuk, while providing a U.S. military presence at this island 632 miles southeast of Guam. Exact Date Shot Unknown . Published in AIRMAN Magazine August 1997

Hospital Corpsman 1ST Class Curtis K.A. Phillip teaches nursing students how to use an oxygen tank during a Civic Action Team-sponsored class at Yap Memorial Hospital. The team, comprised of United States Navy construction battalion members, is deployed to Yap to offer vocational training as well as to aid villagers with construction projects

Equipment Operator 2nd Class Emil A. Norby uses a backhoe to dig a waterline on the island of Yap. Norby, a U.S. Navy construction battalion member, is part of a Civic Action Team deployed to the island to aid villagers with construction projects and offer vocational training

A sailor aboard the tank landing ship USS RACINE (LST 1191) studies his surroundings with the ship's binoculars at dusk. The vessel is in the region as part of a civic action program

Beverly Imeong, a mechanic trainee, reviews a technical manual with Construction Mechanic 2nd Class Kevin Griffitts. Griffitts and other United States Navy construction battalion members are part of a Civic Action Team deployed to the island of Yap to offer vocational training and to aid villagers with construction projects

Equipment Operator Second Class (EO2) Larry Fulbright instructs one of several local workers in the basic functions of carpentry. The Seabees operate an apprenticeship program with the local labor force to aid in training for self-help programs

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Kory McLeod (left), and SRA William Fay, both B-52 Stratofortress aircraft Crew Chiefs assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing (BW), prepare to launch their aircraft during night operations on the flight line at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. (SUBSTANDARD)

MASTER SGT. Kurt Knowles, a flight engineer with the 6th Air Refueling Squadron, 22nd Air Refueling Wing, performs a preflight inspection in the cockpit of a KC-10A Extender aircraft

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Brett Stevens, looks over a Russian Federation Navy (RFN) KA-27 Helix helicopter, during his visit and tour aboard the RFN Udaloy Class Guided Missile Destroyer, MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV, at Naval Base, Santa Rita, Guam (GU). The SHAPOSHNIKOV is one of four RFN ships participating with US Navy Ships in Passing Exercise 2006 (PASSEX 06) off the coast of Guam. PASSEX 06 is an exercise designed to increase interoperability between the two navies while enhancing the strong cooperative relationship between Russia and the United States

Enthusiastic Indonesian spectators watch a performance by the US Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration team. The Thunderbirds are performing in Indonesia as part of their 1987 Pacific tour which encompasses nine countries and Guam

A Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Sailor rappels from the door of a US Navy (USN) MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter form Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25), during a Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique (HRST) training exercise held at Polaris Point, Santa Rita Naval Base, Guam (GU), during the Annual Multi-national Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Exercise known as TRICARB 2006." The Exercise brings together EOD Units from the US, Australia and Singapore