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  • Andersen youth have fun, get fit during Fun and Fitness Week

    More than 150 students, ranging from pre-kindergarteners to fifth-graders, participated in Fun and Fitness Week, a program designed to promote healthy living among children, May 5-8 at Andersen Elementary School here. Physical education teachers Dialma Cartagena and Josephine Pinto organized the

  • Air Force fiscal 2010 budget reflects rebalanced priorities

    Air Force officials here announced May 7 that its portion of the president's $3.4 trillion fiscal 2010 federal budget reflects a balanced strategy to prevail in today's joint fight and sustain air, space and cyberspace dominance. The two overarching principles guiding next year's budget are

  • ‘Smooth Move’ program simplifies PCS process

    Chances are there's been a time or two when you felt like pulling your hair out during a permanent change of station. However, thanks to the Airman and Family Readiness Center's "Smooth Move" program, a PCS can be an enjoyable process. Because wing officials recognize the importance of the program,

  • PACAF, Annual award winner recognized as Team Andersen's 'Top Performer'

    A noncommissioned officer from the 36th Medical Support Squadron recently took home the 2008 NCO of the Year award for the 36th Wing, as well as Pacific Air Forces' 2008 Health Plans Management NCO of the Year award. Those achievements make Staff Sgt. Jamie Brewer, TRICARE Service Center

  • Team Andersen helps local community at soap box derby

    Nearly 50 Team Andersen members pulled together to make the annual soap box derby held at the Yigo drag strip May 9 a success. The event, sponsored by the Big Brother Big Sister Organization, takes several days and approximately eight hours of volunteer work to set up. "Since Andersen has been

  • Operation Linebacker provides lessons for long-duration sorties

    This month marks the 37th anniversary of Operation Linebacker I - an air operation executed from Andersen Air Force Base aimed at disrupting North Vietnamese supply routes and reinforcement units fighting in the south. Today, long-endurance air missions like Polar Lightning, in which 13th

  • Can you find the balance to be truly fit?

    Are you fit? Being "fit" means different things to different people. A long-distance runner believes he is fit because he can run long distances without stopping, and he isn't very concerned about his lack of muscle mass or strength. A power lifter, on the other hand, believes he is fit because he

  • Ten things to do this weekend

    Family golfing Every Sunday at 2 p.m. families can golf for $35 at the Palm Tree Golf Course on Andersen. The offer includes green fees for up to four people, two carts and rental clubs. Guam Soap Box Derby The Guam Soap Box Derby takes place at May 9 at the Guam International Raceway Park. Winner

  • Take to the skies: 734th AMS provides space available travel

    For those Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines with a case of island fever, the 734th Air Mobility Squadron has the cure. The 734th AMS offers first-come, first-serve space available travel to all active duty, Reserve and Guard servicemembers, dependants and DoD civilians able to acquire a command

  • Reserve Airmen complete deployment to Guam

    More than 110 Airmen and four KC-135 Stratotankers from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind., completed a four-month deployment May 1 to Andersen Air Force Base. The Airmen formed the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron to support Pacific refueling operations. KC-135s have been routinely deployed