13 July 2017 644th Combat Communications Squadron Hosts Biannual Combat Readiness Exercise ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- More than 30 Airmen from the 644th Combat Communications Squadron participated in exercise Dragon Forge June 12-16, 2017, at Andersen South, Guam.Exercise Dragon Forge is a 164-hour training exercise designed to teach, train and build combat skills, while instilling...
18 October 2017 Andersen Receives 1.5M Pounds of Munitions during Annual in-shipment ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The Airmen from the 36th Munitions Squadron worked around the clock to offload 1.5 million pounds of munitions during an annual in-shipment starting Aug. 21 through Sept. 30, 2017.This shipment will replace expired munitions and support an overall growth of more than...
12 December 2017 Ribbon-cutting Celebrates Opening of Pacific Regional Training Center ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The largest troop-built construction project in the Pacific since the Vietnam conflict came to a close this month, with the completion of the Pacific Regional Training Center (PRTC) on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.On Dec. 7, the 554th RED HORSE Squadron held a...
22 November 2017 Logistics Readiness Squadron Airmen Produce Liquid Oxygen at Andersen ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The U.S. Air Force has two cryogenics production plants, one of which is on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. For the last year however, the plant has been closed while undergoing repairs to be more energy efficient and bring it to mission capable status.Cryogenics, or...
01 December 2017 Andersen AFB to Host 66th Annual Operation Christmas Drop ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The 66th iteration of Operation Christmas Drop is set to take to the Pacific skies here Dec. 11.The Department of Defense’s longest recurring humanitarian mission is a long-standing annual tradition of packaging and delivering food, tools and toys to more than 50...
21 March 2019 Clearing the field Heavy construction equipment rumbles up and down the mock runway on Andersen Air Force Base’s Northwest Field, vibrating the ground as many tons of steel and hydraulics forces the world into a new shape. A group of NCOs stand in a loose circle, discussing the challenge ahead of them, while their...
08 February 2019 Forward Deployed: Andersen Airmen Project Airpower from Diego Garcia DIEGO GARCIA, Indian Ocean -- The diverse mission of the 36th Wing can be boiled down to a single concept: Project airpower across the Indo-Pacific region.Deployed to an atoll 21 times smaller than Guam, less than 30 Airmen of Detachment 1 have the important mission of maintaining a forward...
29 August 2019 Andersen’s B-52 Assists in Search and Rescue ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The 69th Expeditionary Bomber Squadron, assigned to Andersen Air Force Base, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and good samaritans aboard the Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System (AMVER) vessel Isl Star, rescued eight mariners aboard the 60-foot...
29 August 2019 Andersen’s Defenses Keeping with the Times ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- In an effort to increase the lethality of the warfighter, the Air Force (AF) announced earlier this year that the 30-year-old M9 pistol would be put to rest and that the new workhorse, the Sig Sauer M18 pistol, would be taking its place.The 36th Security Forces...
12 August 2019 24/7 support, 24/7 response ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- With a 185 foot-wide-B-52 Stratofortress in front of him and a star-filled sky above, Senior Airman Dillain Lapolice, 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion journeyman, was beginning his shift at the start of dusk. Moths were...