Articles

  • Addressing challenges with our summer surge deployment

    The mission of the 36th Wing is to provide a US-based lethal warfighting platform for the employment, deployment, reception and throughput of air and space forces in the Asia-Pacific region. We all have heard this at least once as we in-processed the base, but within our daily lives we often lose

  • Typhoon Season is around the corner: It's time to get ready again

    The Northwest Pacific is the most active breeding ground for tropical cyclone activity on earth. On an annual average, 31 tropical cyclones form in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, with about 18 to 20 of them reaching typhoon strength. . In comparison to the storms affecting the East and Gulf Coast of

  • Airmen save other Airmen by donating blood

    Members of the Armed Service Blood Bank Center held their annual Blood Drive this year on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam on May 20, 2008. Their mission one here at Andersen AFB is grave to collect enough blood supply for humanitarian relief around the Pacific and also supply for Enduring Freedom

  • Andersen Airmen host Big Brothers Big Sisters for base tour

    Andersen Airmen hosted more than 20 youths enrolled in Guam's Big Brothers Big Sisters program and their sponsors, or "Bigs", for a tour of Andersen's flightline May 24. Seven Andersen Airmen, along with many other men and women from Guam's community who act as positive role models for their little

  • 2008 Air Force Community Assessment

    The Andersen Community Action Group is sponsoring the 2008 Community Assessment Survey of service members, spouses, reservists, and reserve spouses. This survey is the best way for Air Force community members to make their opinions and needs known. The results of the survey will be used by base

  • Andersen holds annual Memorial Day celebration

    More than 500 Team Andersen residents came out to Arc Light Park last Friday for the 36th Services Squadron's annual "Memorial Day Celebration." Services squadron personnel and volunteers set about its task of setting up tables, chairs, canopies and other items to in preparation for the afternoon

  • Above and Beyond: Mrs. Teresa Owens

    While words like dedication, loyalty, strength, and honor aptly describe important qualities of U.S. Air Force Airmen throughout the world, the same words are also applicable to military spouses. Faced with unique expectations and demands, military families often experience numerous challenges in

  • New experimental equipment enhances Airmen capabilities

    EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AFPN) -- It's not uncommon for tactical air control party Airmen, navigating through miles of rugged terrain, to carry nearly a hundred pounds of equipment in order to call in an air strike. In fact, it is their mission to advise Army commanders about that capability

  • Pacific Air Forces to deliver aid to China

    HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- Pacific Air Forces Airmen are slated to deliver the first humanitarian aid to the People's Republic of China Sichuan province after an earthquake hit earlier this week. "We offer our sincere condolences to the citizens of the People's Republic of China who