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US Navy (USN) crewmembers from the USN EP-3 "Aries II" aircraft involved in the March 31st accident with a Chinese F-8 aircraft arrive at Hickam AFB, Hawaii (HI). The crew arrived at Hickam AFB, HI from Andersen AFB Guam, as a part of Operation VALIANT RETURN. The EP-3 crewmembers were detained in China for 17-days prior to being released

US Air Force Major General (MGEN) John R. Dallager, Commander Joint Task Force OPERATION PACIFIC HAVEN, answers media questions at Andersen AFB, Guam. Pacific Haven, a joint humanitarian effort conducted by the U.S. Military, airlifted over 2100 Kurdish refugees from northern Iraq. The Refugees will be housed temporarily at Andersen AFB, Guam, while they go through the immigration process for residence into the United States

The Russian Federated Navy (RFN) ship MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV (RFN 543), navigates through Apra Harbor, Guam (GU), as a US Navy (USN) Harbor Patrol Boat (HPB) secures the area. The SHAPOSHNIKOV is one of four RFN ships and two US Navy (USN) ships, which participated in the Passing Exercise (PASSEX) 2006, off the coast of Guam

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from HMH-463 Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, lands on the island of Peleliu as part of Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. Marines from Aviation Support Element, Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), Okinawa Japan, and 3rd Marines 7th Battalion 29 Palms, California, participated in KOA THUNDER on the island of Guam from July 9 to July 14. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the Marine Corps ability to deploy in the South Pacific from places other than Okinawa, Japan

Onboard the US Navy (USN) Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS COWPENS (CG 63), reflected in the "Big Eyes" are the Russian Federation Navy Dubna Class, Replenishment Tanker, PECHENGA and the USN Guided Missile Cruiser (Aegis) USS CHOSIN (CG 65), underway in the Pacific Ocean, during the opening phases of a joint US-Russian Naval Exercise. A Russian Federation Navy vessel made the first visit to the US Territory of Guam in order to participate in a joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise

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

Squadron Leaders B.S. Kanwar, (left), Indian Air Force, and Shaheed Al-Mamun, Bangladesh Air Force, discuss flightline activities at Andersen AFB, Guam during PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY 2001. PACIFIC AIRLIFT RALLY (PAR) is a PACAF-sponsored Military Airlift symposium for countries in the pacific region. PAR, held every two years and hosted by a pacific nation, this year Guam is the host nation with the symposium staging out of Andersen AFB. The symposium includes informational seminars with area of expertise briefings, a Command Post Exercise (CPX) which addresses military airlift support to a humanitarian airlift/disaster relief scenario, and a concurrent flying training program that builds...

In preparation for next year's observation of the 50th anniversary of Guam's World War Two liberation, Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 (NMCB-3) clear a historic area at Orote Point, Naval Station Guam. The rock staircase was built near Sumay by Japanese prisoners of war in 1944-46 after American forces had recaptured the island in July of 1944. The prisoners dedicated the stairway to the Emperor of Imperial Japan Hirohito

Three American Flag draped transfer cases carrying the remains of fallen Americans found in Laos, sit aboard a USAF C-17A Globemaster III aircraft at Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. This is the first time the remains have touched American soil and are enroute to Hawaii (HI), for further investigation

Corporal (CPL) Douglas Aleman, Gulf Company, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment looks on as a CH-46 Sea Knight from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM 262) lands to pick up evacuees from a simulated Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO), in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Crew members stand by a damage control vehicle on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) during flight operations off the coast of Beirut. 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

Ground crew members chock the wheels of a 28th Bomb Wing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft just after its arrival during Exercise Glad Customer '82