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A US Navy (USN) CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5), makes it's final flight over the country side near Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam. HC-5 is replacing its inventory of Sea Knight helicopters with Black Hawk helicopters

U.S. Air Force Security Police assigned to the 613th Security Forces Squadron, 613th Contingency Response Group, 36th Air Expeditionary Wing, armed with M4 Training Weapon and wearing paintball protective face mask, participate in a convoy training exercise held at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on September 7, 2004. Members of the 613th Security Forces Squadron are training with Sim-munition rounds, which are a detergent, based 9mm round fired through a modified M4 carbine receiver. This gives a more realistic training environment as the rounds travel 400ft a second leaving a small color marking when a target is hit. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Bennie J. Davis III) (RELEASED)

A US Air Force (USAF) B-52 Stratofortress Bomber deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana, takes off from Andersen AFB, Guam, in support of the 7th Air Expeditionary Wing's mission

A cargo lift is positioned in front of the cargo door of a 6th Air Refueling Squadron, 22nd Air Refueling Wing, KC-10A Extender aircraft during a Military Airlift Command channel cargo mission

Navy Lieutenant Adam Pacal, a flight surgeon from HMH-463, checks into the eyes of Kikuwo Kodeb, a diabetes patient in Peleliu in a community relations project during Exercise KOA THUNDER 2001. KOA THUNDER is an exercise involving elements of 1ST Marine Air Wing (MAW), and 3rd Marine Division, where Marines conduct an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). The Aviation Support Element (ASE) from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will be tested on command and control of several different missions, to include Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personal (TRAP), airfield seizures, and a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)

View along the Guam Historical Trail with a sign describing the wreckage of a World War II F-4U Corsair fighter aircraft that crashed on approach to the Orote Airfield main runway in 1944

An evacuated Kurdish boy stands next to a sign pointing the way to the "Mayor's" office at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during OPERATION PACIFIC HAVEN. Pacific Haven airlifted of over 2,100 Kurds from northern Iraq. The evacuees will be housed temporarily at Andersen AFB, Guam, while they go through the immigration process for residence into the United States

Storekeeper SEAMAN John P. Lerma (right) and Aviation Maintenance Administrationman Craig S. Mocello stand the low-visibility watch aboard the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) as it transits the Suez Canal en route to the Persian Gulf. Guam deployed to the Gulf as part of an increased military presence in response to a U.S. Central Command request for additional forces in support of operation Southern Watch

A fuel barge is anchored alongside the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) during the Blue Ridge's port visit

With 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles, US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from 3rd Platoon (PLT), Fox Company, 2nd Battalion (BN), 4th Marine Regiment (MAR RGT), Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), conduct urban terrain combat training. The training is taking place in a former US Air Force (USAF) housing area near Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam, during joint Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Kenneth Reeves from the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), Fire Protection Flight stationed at Andersen Air Force Base (AFB), Guam works with members of the Guam Fire Department to extinguish a fuel tank fire on the Cabras Island tank farm

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