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A ground breaking ceremony marks the beginning of construction for a new Security Forces Squadron operational building at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. Breaking ground are (left to right): US Air Force (USAF) olonel (OL) Joseph F. Mudd Jr., ommander, 36th Air Base Wing; US Navy (USN) aptain (APT) Joseph D. Ludovici, Navy Officer in charge of onstruction ontracts; Mr. James Ramirez, Dick Pacific onstruction ompany, Ltd., Representative and SENIOR Vice-President; USAF OL Thomas P. Finnegan, 36th Air Base Wing; USAF OL Simpson, 36th Mission Support Group; USAF Major (MAJ) John Worley; USAF hief MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Paul Steele, 36th Security Forces; and USAF Lieutenant...

World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) Major (MAJ), Herman "Hap" Hansen, Jr., Commanding Officer, Marine Fighter Squadron One, taken on Guadalcanal, September 25, 1943. MAJ Hansen is an Ace Pilot credited with 5 kills

World War II (WWII) area photograph of US Marine Corps (USMC) First Lieutenant (1LT) Harold E. Segal taken at Russell Islands July 17, 1943. 1LT Segal is an Ace Pilot credited with 12 kills. His home is 782 Woodmere Avenue, Long Island, New York

A starboard bow view of the US Navy (USN) ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS (FLIGHT I) GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER (AEGIS), USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68), underway in the Mediterranean Sea, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. DDG 68 is named for five Sullivan brothers who lost their lives in World War II during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands

Underwater view of two Navy divers working to raise the submarine ex-USS BLUEGILL (SS 242) during Pacific Submarine Salvage Exercise 83 (PACSUBSALVEX-83) off the coast of Maui

Led by US Navy (USN) Captain (CAPT) Dell Epperson (left) and Commodore, Afloat Training Group (ATG), Middle Pacific (ATG MIDPAC), Sailors assigned to ATG MIDPAC clean up trash and debris from the shorelines of historic Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI). Ford Island is adjacent to Battleship Row, home of the USN Iowa Class Battleship Missouri (BB 63) and USS Arizona Memorial

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Pete Obenauer and USN Hospital Corpsman Second Class (HM2) Richard Cabatit, Naval Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6 (NEPMU-6) carry an entomology vector surveillance and control kit to an uploading point as they prepare for deployment to Indonesia. The entomology kits are used to trap mosquitoes, ticks and other disease carrying insects for examination and possible extermination if discovered to be carriers of malaria or dengue fever. NEPMU-6 is deploying to Indonesia to provide humanitarian support and conduct water quality testing, insect collection and examination for disease, and medical assistance as part of larger disaster relief efforts...

Troop of the 1ST Battalion, 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, arrive at Osan Air Base from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to begin the joint Korean/United States training exercise TEAM SPIRIT '83

Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III speaks with RADM Larry G. Vogt, director for plans and policy, Commander in CHIEF, U.S. Pacific Fleet, during Survivor's Day ceremonies at the USS ARIZONA Memorial Visitors Center. The event honors the sailors and Marines of the battleships that were sunk or damaged in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor

STAFF SGT. Dan Lee, a staff member of the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge program, teaches newcomers the proper way to make a bed during the quasi-military residential phase. This federally funded program targets at-risk kids between 16 and 18 years old and tries to steer them away from trouble while they complete their high school requirements.(Published in AIRMAN Magazine May 1996 ) Exact Date Shot Unknown

Marines from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines weapon platoon, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii stand guard over their weapons during Exercise TANDEM THRUST. India Company is conducting a live fire range exercise consisting of firing AT-4 Rocket Launchers, Shoulder Mounted Anti Armor Weapons, and M-2O3 Grenade Launchers at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area. TANDEM THRUST is a biennial combined United States and Australian military training exercise, held in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, Australia. More than 27,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines are participating, with Canadian units taking part as opposing forces. The purpose of Exercise TANDEM THRUST is to...

CHIEF Boatswain's Mate (BWC) Geraldine Morvay, Leading CHIEF PETTY Officer 1ST Division, speaks into the 1MC microphone during preparations to get the fleet oiler USS WILLIAMETTE (AO-180) underway