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  • Jumps and chutes: 736th SFS conduct airborne training

    The blood vessels dilate. The heart starts pounding faster as adrenaline kicks into full gear. The jumpers manage to keep a calm bearing as they wait for the signal. They're ready. The light turns green, and from the dark cargo hold of a C-130 Hercules, they jump into the bright tropical skies of

  • Be part of 16th Annual 'You Got Talent' contest

    Registration for the 16th Annual You Got Talent Family and Teen Contest here ends Aug. 31. This year's event will give Team Andersen a chance to compete in 11 different categories ranging from singing and dancing to comedy and drama. The performers will be able to compete in solo, group,

  • Airman explores the world through skating

    A solitary skater takes a couple strides and smoothly steps on to his three-and-a-half-foot board. He rolls onto a bike trail with no idea where it will take him. He can feel every inconsistency of the ground beneath his heels. With his wheels gliding over the pavement, he waits to discover the

  • Airmen asked to participate in DOD anti-tobacco video competition

    The Department of Defense, Health Affairs, has recently announced a new countermarketing video competition that aims to target tobacco as an enemy of the military that degrades service members' health, fitness, mission readiness and work productivity. The competition entitled, "Fight the Enemy,"

  • Kadena pilots turn and burn on Andersen

    More than 300 Airmen and 18 F-15C Eagles from the 67th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, for an exercise that will develop bolster the squadron's expeditionary skills.The Aviation Training Relocation Program increases the operational

  • Exercise Beverly Palm 13-5 to begin Sept. 9

    Operational Readiness Exercise Beverly Palm 13-5, a base-wide exercise testing the wing's ability to perform its wartime mission, kicks off Sept. 9-12 on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. According to the 36th Wing Inspector General's office, the organization tasked with evaluating the exercise, an ORE

  • Deployed Minot maintainers head home

    Maintainers supporting the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., in support of the continuous bomber presence in the Pacific are scheduled to return home at the end of the month after a successful deployment here. The CBP is an ongoing U.S. Pacific Command