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  • New BX grand opening on the horizon

    A project a year and a half and roughly $46 million in the making is on the verge of completion. The new Base Exchange grand opening is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 10 at 9 a.m. The project is 95 percent complete, said David Parker, AAFES store manager. At this point, we are on schedule, but

  • Andersen offers launch point for multinational cyclone study

    Two Air Force Reserve WC-130Js and a Naval Research Lab P-3 aircraft deployed here recently to conduct meteorological research on tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific from August through September. During the project, labeled Tropical Cyclone Structure-2008, WC-130 aircrews from the 53rd Weather

  • Expeditionary maintainers keep F-15E Strike Eagles in flight

    The 389th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, performs phase inspections on an F-15E Strike Eagle. Several maintenance sections work together to ensure the F-15E is in tip-top shape. The inspections are equivalent to miniature overhauls and are required after every 400

  • Strong, diverse presence offers flexible airpower

    At any given time Andersen AFB is home to several different aircraft and squadrons ready to respond to a variety of contingency crises and humanitarian missions. Pacific theater commanders have often praised Guam's strategic position in the Western Pacific, which affords the U.S. freedom of action

  • AAFES, clothing company sponsors 30K gift card giveaway

    The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and Hanes are teaming up to give away 30 $1,000 exchange gift cards from Aug. 15-21. "While this is a simple 'enter to win' promotion, the payoff is quite impressive," said AAFES' Chief Marketing Officer Mat Dromey. "All eligible exchange shoppers who

  • Arranging student transportation first step in ensuring success

    The school year is fast approaching, and all students must be set up for success when it comes to student transportation. New students attending Andersen Elementary School can register in person starting Aug. 13 at a student transportation office. Returning bus riders must call the Student

  • Andersen's location gives Air Force a strategic advantage in the Pacific

    Andersen is a strategically located, forward main operating base in the Pacific. The constant rotation of Andersen has an impressive roster of aircraft that are housed here throughout any given cycle. In 2008 alone, Andersen has been a temporary home to airborne warning and control system, B-2s,

  • Hazmat training improves Andersen's fire, emergency capabilities

    In an effort improve their understanding of one another's capabilities, Andersen's emergency responders held a weapons of mass destruction response exercise at Fire Station One here Aug. 6. Members of the 36th Medical Group bioenvironmental flight and the 36th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency

  • Commando Warrior adds realistic combat training with simunitions

    Modernization of security forces training has improved at the Regional Training Center here through use of dye marking cartridges to simulate realism during Ground Combat Skills courses offered by the 736th Security Forces Squadron's Commando Warrior flight. Commando Warrior is using "simunitions,"

  • CAPEX exercises measures PACAF's combat ammunition production

    Andersen Airmen participated in an Ammunition Production Exercise, the exercise took place from July 28 thru Aug. 2 at Andersen AFB, Guam. The CAPEX was a three day non-rated exercise providing unit training in mass production of non-nuclear war reserve munitions and training in mass munitions