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Submit photos for Welcome to the Pacific magazine by Jan. 15

Have you ever dreamed about having your photo featured on the cover of a magazine?
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Naval Base Guam Sailors assist with cleanup efforts at Marcial Sablan Elementary School

U.S. Naval Base Guam Sailors and firefighters partnered with multiple tenant commands to assist with cleanup efforts at Marcial Sablan Elementary School in Agat, Jan 15.
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Pet of the week: Pappy

Call G.A.I.N. (Guam Animals in Need) Animal Shelter in Yigo at 653-4246 or visit for more information on adopting this pet.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class MacAdam Kane Weissman
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U.S. Navy transfers land to Guam Power Authority

Capt. Tim Liberatore, commanding officer, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Marianas, poses for a group photo with local and Guam Power Authority (GPA) leadership after a land transfer signing held at the Gloria B. Nelson Public Service Building.
Navy Capt. R. Wade Blizzard, commanding officer of U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia, donates blood for the Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Units Diego Garcia walking blood bank on Dec. 17, 2020. The walking blood bank is a list of eligible donors who can provide blood in case of emergency. (U.S. Navy photo by Navy Seaman Apprentice Stevin Atkins)
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COVID-19 hinders blood donations during National Blood Donor Month

Getting people to donate a pint of their potentially life-saving blood has never been easy. And, like almost every aspect of modern life, COVID-19 has made it even harder.
Jamie Adler is the lead for the DHA’s Virtual Health Clinical Integration Office, part of the DHA Connected Health Branch, under DHA Medical Affairs. (Graphic courtesy of DHA Connected Health.)
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Partnerships, COVID-19 are catalysts for enterprise virtual health

In the pre-COVID-19 world, nearly all health care was delivered in person within brick-and-mortar facilities.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Divine Cox
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Andersen conducts active shooter exercise

Airmen and civilians assigned to the 36th Security Forces squadron participates in an active shooter exercise Jan. 13, 2020 on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
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Guam Guard to support capitol response mission

The Guam National Guard is currently preparing to answer the call to support our nation with approximately 30 Soldiers to provide security during the Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery observes the beginning stages of a refractive surgery at the Warfighter Refractive Surgery Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Oct. 21. The center is the largest refractive training program in the Department of Defense and has trained and certified more than 150 refractive surgeons. (Photo by Air Force St. Sgt. Amanda Stanford, 59th Medical Wing.)
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MHS refractive surgery experts discuss warfighter readiness

More than 200 participants from around the military ophthalmology and optometry communities gathered virtually on Jan. 8 to share ideas for the first time since the beginning of the transition to the Defense Health Agency.
Andersen Air Force Base (Jan. 12, 2021) A Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 P8-A Poseidon aircraft arrives in Guam for Sea Dragon 2021 Jan. 12. Sea Dragon is an annual multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise that improves the interoperability elements required to effectively and cohesively respond to the defense of a regional contingency in the Indo-Pacific, while continuing to build and strengthen relationships held between nations.
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Guam hosts Partner Nations in Exercise SEA DRAGON 2021

Two P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Patrol Squadron 5 (VP-5), the “Mad Foxes,” joined several partner nations to kick off multinational anti-submarine warfare exercise Sea Dragon 2021, Jan. 12.
The Defense Health Agency encourages all beneficiaries to ‘Get Into Fighting Weight.'
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Get into fighting weight with the 2021 Total Force Fitness Challenge

Weight gain around the holiday season is common. However, this year’s ongoing social distancing restrictions due to COVID-19 could present new challenges for those trying to stay in shape.
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 11, 1st Marine Logistics Group, conduct a "snowshoe tour" during Mountain Exercise 2-18 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. (Photo by Marine Corps Sgt. James Trevino, 1st Marine Logistics Group.)
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COVID presents new set of challenges for DOD environmental health

Total Force Fitness is a fundamental element of the Department of Defense’s National Defense Strategy.
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Service Reflections: Vietnam vet recalls commander’s escape from captivity

My father served in the Marine Corps during World War II. He served in the Pacific on the staff of FMF Pac, first at Pearl Harbor and later at Noumea, New Caledonia
In formation from left, Technical Sgt. Benjamin Garcia, Technical Sgt. Edward Quichocho, and Staff Sgt. Lance Botelho of the Guam Air National Guard were awarded star notes and coins of excellence by Maj. Gen. (GU) Ester Aguigui at the Barrigada Readiness Complex on Jan. 10, 2021. The Guardsmen were involved with performing CPR in separate incidents that saved the lives of patients in their civilian line of work.
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Guam Guardsmen save lives, recognized by TAG

Staff Sgt. Lance Botelho and Technical Sgt. Edward Quichocho of the Guam Air National Guard’s REDHORSE Squadron, while on duty at their civilian jobs at Naval Base Guam Fire and Emergency Services, responded to an emergency aboard the USNS Millinocket on Nov. 12.
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Naval Hospital Guam assists the Guard with medical readiness

Corpsmen from the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam assist Guam National Guard medics with a medical readiness exercise in Barrigada on Jan. 9.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd class Kelsey J. Hockenberger
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USS Ohio conducts scheduled evolution

Sailors assigned to the Gold crew of the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) transit Apra Harbor during a scheduled evolution in Guam.