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  • Ground equipment maintainers support flightline missions

    Airmen assigned to the 36th Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment Flight are responsible for a variety of essential equipment that helps keep the B-52 Stratofortress and other aircraft here operational.From bomb-loading lifts and munitions trailers to generators that provide aircraft and

  • Team Andersen's Best: Senior Airman Presley Griffith

    Team Andersen's Best recognizes Airmen and civilian professionals for outstanding contributions to mission and team success.As spotlight performers, individuals are chosen by base leaders for demonstrating the Air Force's core values of integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we

  • Helping home: Saipan Airman aids native island during typhoon recovery

    When Typhoon Soudelor struck the small island of Saipan recently, the tropical storm likely was a side note of the daily news headlines for many Americans.For one of Andersen Air Force Base's own, however, the storm literally hit close to home.Senior Airman Louie Lacsina, 36th Mobility Response

  • Aircrew flight equipment team keeps game rigged

    Whenever aircraft take off from the flightline, Airmen with the 36th Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment section and their deployed counterparts with the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron work behind the scenes to ensure parachutes for aircrew and airframe are ready to go.From

  • Beginning the Air Force day: Meet the Airmen of Wake Island

    (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series. These stories focus on individual Airmen, highlighting their Air Force story.)About 1,500 miles east of Guam, in the middle of nowhere in the Mid-Pacific, lies the small coral limestone atoll of Wake Island.Ahead of Guam by about two

  • TACPs control sky over Guam for joint training

    Several thousand feet above ground, Air Force pilots see the birds-eye view of the battle field: Every road, building and vehicle is laid out for them.What happens hidden from view, under cover of foliage or buildings, however, eludes them.Deploying in small teams to augment combat units, Tactical

  • Contingency response Airmen assist in Wake Island storm recovery

    Airmen with the 36th Contingency Response Group at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, arrived on Wake Island July 20 to assist uniformed and civilian uniformed and civilian staff in critical storm recovery efforts.In anticipation of possible storm surges from Typhoon Halola, all base members had been

  • AFPC road show introduces new enlisted evaluation system

    A team with the Air Force Personnel Center visited here July 13 to introduce Airmen to the ongoing implementation of the new enlisted evaluation and Weighted Airmen Promotion System.During an all-call at the base fitness center, Chief Master Sgt. Brandy Petzel, Headquarters Air Force chief of

  • PACAF commander tours Andersen facilities, engages Airmen, families

    The commander of the Pacific Air Forces visited Andersen Air Force Base July 9 through 10 to gain a better understanding of unit readiness, quality of life and Air Force operations on the island.During her first visit as commander, Gen. Lori Robinson, who assumed command in October 2014, traveled to

  • Andersen Airman supports Soldiers in Guatemala

    When the going gets tough for deployed Soldiers, they often rely on air support provided by Air Force aircraft.When 76 members of the Texas National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment Task Force Salerno recently deployed to Jutiapa, Guatemala, their Air Force support didn't come in the