Articles

  • Base recognizes two for increased awareness, security response

    The Vigilant Warrior Program, a joint Security Forces and Air Force Office of Special Investigation initiative, was created to increase awareness in our Air Force community. Working in conjunction with the Air Force Eagle Eyes Program, SFS/AFOSI created bi-monthly exercises to test how quickly

  • Andersen establishes new website, retains base paper

    The Air Force's initiative to move news to the web has left people wondering what exactly will happen to the base newspaper. At many bases, the newspaper is simply going away - a paper copy will no longer exist. For them, the news will be delivered online. We at the 36th Wing Public Affairs Office

  • ‘Bring the mission home’

    Brig. Gen. Douglas Owens addressed Airmen and their families at two Town Hall meetings held Tuesday at the base Theater. The meetings were a forum for wing leadership to inform the base populace about the wing and listen to the concerns of the men and women who live and work here. General Owens

  • Joint exercise demonstrates CRG, C-17 capabilities

    Airlift and contingency response combined recently during a joint training mission between the 36th Contingency Response Group and the 15th Airlift Wing, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Together, they conducted the first C-17 airdrop training mission that paired the two units together. After drop

  • Tax center collects $1.6 million in refunds

    The Andersen Tax Center, a vital service to Team Andersen members, closed out another successful year on April 17. Each year, the tax center provides Airmen, dependents, and retirees in the Andersen Air Force Base community an avenue to obtain quality tax preparation services free of charge. In just

  • Airmen learn leadership skills through enlisted development

    In an effort to help mold enlisted Airmen into the leaders they must become, Andersen held its first Enlisted Professional Enhancement Seminar at the First Term Airman Center classroom Tuesday. "The topic of leadership is very powerful, much needed and probably the least practiced," said Master Sgt.

  • Town Hall addresses issues

    Termites, radon, day care and youth activities were the hot topics for base residents attending two Town Hall meetings Tuesday at the base theater. Base leadership held the meetings in order to foster better communication with the base populace and help address their needs. Following remarks from

  • Andersen fuel pumps nearly operational

    Your lengthy wait at the base gas station may soon be over. Contractors are replacing the old fuel kiosk with a fuel dispenser island and are repairing a pipe that failed inspection, said Roy Punzalan, the manager of the Army Air Force Exchange Service Car Care Shoppette. Demolition of the old kiosk

  • $42 million Global Hawk facility contract awarded

    On May 4, 2007, the Air Force announced that Black Construction Corporation was awarded a $42 million contract to build an aircraft maintenance and operations center for the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles here. The company, which previously built the $32.8 million Hangar 1 and Andersen's $13

  • Guam tests joint rescue capability at Tarague

    When a search and rescue is initiated at Tarague Beach, the Air Force is only one of several agencies that responds. In a cooperative effort to maximize the chances of survival, the Navy's Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Five, Coast Guard, Guam Fire Department, Guam Police Department, Army