Team Andersen units support Cope North

On Feb. 28, members of the 36th Wing and Team Andersen completed another successful iteration of Cope North. This year's annual training exercise brought more than 1,300 Airmen to Guam for two weeks of multilateral interoperability. The exercise, which is a joint effort between the U.S. Air Force,

Minot aircrews, ops support personnel and maintainers join Team Andersen to continue CBP mission

Approximately 360 Airmen and six B-52H Stratofortress aircraft from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., arrived here during the week of March 3 to begin their deployment in support of the U.S. Pacific Command's Continuous Bomber Presence mission.The 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron replaced the 20th

Pacific Defender serves as foundation for lasting relationships

Pacific Defender 14-1, a security forces subject-matter expert exchange conducted as part of the U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Cooperation Program, concluded here Feb. 13. The three-day event included 20 service members from the Australian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Philippine air

JASDF observes USAF EOD demo

USAF, RAAF team up for Cope North aero evac exercise

U.S. Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force aeromedical evacuation teams worked together on a simulated patient transport using a Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130 Feb. 18 during a combined humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HADR) exercise over the Pacific Ocean in support of exercise Cope

Cope North humanitarian assistance, disaster relief training improves cohesion in Asia-Pacific Region

Airmen representing the United States, Japan, and Australia exercised their abilities to respond to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in support of exercise Cope North Feb. 16 through 28 on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. "Cope

Andersen Airmen first to learn innovative airfield damage repair capability

The 36th Civil Engineer Squadron was the first unit in the Air Force to receive training on a new airfield damage repair technique here Jan. 21 through Jan. 24. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., selected Andersen as the test base for the Airfield Damage Repair

644th Combat Communication remains ready to respond

The 644th Combat Communications Squadron Airmen are capable of rapidly deploying in various situations where communications have not been previously established such as air support operations, air base openings, humanitarian assistance missions and disaster relief efforts.They are capable of quickly

Former Andersen Airman recalls Guam, base's football history

I spent two weeks TDY at Andersen Air Force Base, and as James Earl Jones said in the movie "Field of Dreams", "the memories were so thick I had to brush them away like flies." 32 years later, I could still remember it all as if it were yesterday.I was stationed on Andersen AFB from April, 1976 to

PAX Airmen support all aspects of Andersen missions

Airmen from the 734th Air Mobility Squadron here support Andersen's mission as a key Pacific operating location by getting passengers, aircrew, and their cargo where they need to go. The squadron's approximately 20 Airmen use their versatile skill sets that envelop passenger needs, cargo