ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Operation Christmas Drop is a U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored multinational training and humanitarian assistance mission based out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. This year’s event is bilateral and conducted in partnership with Japan as the 69th iteration of the...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Since Dynamic Force Employment’s (DFE) creation, DFE directs joint forces to one common theme- U.S. military forces operating strategically predictable but operationally unpredictably.“A rotational schedule that allows me to tell you three years from now which...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- For 69 years, the Operation Christmas Drop (OCD) mission has demonstrated America’s goodwill to those with few material resources.On Dec. 7, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, also known as Base Camp during OCD, kicked off OCD20 with a “Push Ceremony.”Due to COVID-19,...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The 25th Fighter Squadron (FS), assigned to the 51st Fighter Wing, Osan Air Base, South Korea, are honing their flight skills while at the Farallon de Medinilla Range (FDM Range), Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands while deployed here, Aug. 10- 21.The 25th FS...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Every service member that enters the 36th Medical Group comes ready to perform their job, but is also assigned a wartime mission in a contingency response team, sometimes separate from their primary duty.On March 24th, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) arrived on Guam,...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Service members assigned to Andersen Air Force Base and Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz have partnered with the Department of State to bring COVID-19 relief to the Indo-Pacific over the last two months.The 734th Air Mobility Squadron (AMS), 36th Medical Group (MG), along...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- To protect my family…To protect my friends and coworkers…To protect my freedom….These are just a few of the reasons members of Team Andersen have chosen to get the COVID-19 vaccine since it has become available Jan. 12.The 36th Medical Group began distribution in...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- “Out in the back of my grandpa’s house there were mangrove trees just above the water line after the tide came in. I would love going back there and build forts with wood that I’d find, like I would in America, and people wouldn’t understand what I was doing. It was...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Earlier this month the United States Air Force 36th Contingency Response Squadron (CRS) sent two cargo load teams to Royal Air Force (RAAF) Base East Sale, Australia, to move supplies in support of Operation BUSHFIRE ASSIST 2019-20.What was scheduled as an...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- U.A. Air Force 2d Lt Megan Barrick is one of the approximately 2,000 military personnel that honed their skills to increase combat readiness and interoperability during the annual trilateral field training exercise of COPE NORTH 2020, Feb.12-28. Barrick is a Materiel...