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YES! gives stateside commissary patrons more options for consistent savings

It would be simple for commissaries to slap a savings tag on its items and ignore the marketplace off the installation.
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Military Appreciation Month: Commissaries highlight patrons’ service with extra savings

The month of May is the commissary’s time to recognize the strength, courage and sacrifices of military family members, especially mothers.
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Value of the benefit: Survey lists commissaries among best grocery stores

Commissary patrons know the value of their benefit so much so that those who participated in a recent magazine survey rated commissaries among the best grocery stores in the U.S.
A U.S. airman prepares a F-15C Eagle for takeoff during a past joint exercise at Gwangju Air Base, South Korea. KRISTEN HELLER/U.S. AIR FORCE
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N. Korean criticism raises concerns that scaled-back military drills have reaped little payoff

The U.S. and South Korea have canceled some annual military exercises and changed the names of others. Commanders no longer publicly profess their resolve to confront the growing nuclear threat from the North.
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We’ve come a long way with autism awareness

In 1998, our son, Hayden, was diagnosed with “atypical autism.” After recovering from the shock, my husband and I inundated ourselves with information, desperate to provide our 3-year-old boy with whatever might help him lead a relatively normal life.
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Pet of the week: Rollie

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. G.A.I.N. is a shelter-based humane society with a mission to prevent cruelty to animals, educate the public and promote good animal laws. Under Water World will donate one adult admission for every Pet of the Week adopted.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Special Agent Charles Raterman, Guam Customs Officer Ike Reyes, NOAA Enforcement Officer John Evangelista, former Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas Natural Resources Specialist Tammy Summers and Guam Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources Biologist C.J. Cayanan display some of the messaging used to educate the public.
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Be kind to Guam’s endangered marine life

Federal and local environmental experts are raising awareness about proper care and appropriate safety precautions around marine animals in Guam’s waters.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jordan Crouch
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Fire in Southern Guam contained by HSC-25

The Guam-based “Island Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 provided aerial firefighting for southern Guam, along the northeastern edge of the Naval Magazine, when a brush fire quickly began to spread and threaten local homes of Santa Rita.
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, Defense Health Agency director, speaks with members of the 42nd Medical Group about upcoming changes to military treatment facilities April 12, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The DHA will be responsible for all facilities with respect to budgetary matters, information technology, health care administration and management, administrative policy and procedure and military medical construction. (U.S. Air Force photo by William Birchfield)
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Changes coming to military medical treatment facilities

The medical field is an ever-changing, ever-growing area. Whether this change is from methods of care, shiny and new equipment or even streamlining the administrative side, the goal is always the same: providing for the needs of the patients.
A U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot assigned to Task Force Viper 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade makes final checks before departing Zagan Poland Training Area on June 21, 2018. The Army wants to boost flight pay and award pilots with incentive money for career achievements to stem a historic attrition rate in its aviation community. CHARLES ROSEMOND/U.S. ARMY
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Army considers better pay for aviation as pilots and crews leave at record rate

The Army wants to boost flight pay and award pilots with incentive money for career achievements in a bid to stem a record 10% attrition rate due largely to aging air crews and competition from commercial airlines.
Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne (right) is escorted into Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms by hospital commanding officer, Navy Capt. Nadji Hariri, for a site visit on the launch of MHS GENESIS, the military's new electronic record-keeping system, April 17. (U.S. Navy photo by Dave Marks)
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New electronic health record integrates all aspects of care

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Two basic rules of life are: 1. Change is inevitable. 2. Everybody resists change. That’s according to business management guru, E. Edwards Deming.
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Here's how Guam came to be the shape it is today

With the southern and northern ends being robust and the central being as narrow as it is, the geography of the island is unique, to say the least.
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30 NCR, III MEF tighten naval engineering relationship

The Guam-based 30th Naval Construction Regiment (30NCR) and III Marine Expeditionary Forces (III MEF) established the Engineers Functional Working Group (EFWG) for the Indo-Pacific Theater April 18.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication 1st Class Timmy Wakefield/Released
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Konetzni Hall: COMSUBRON 15 dedicates building to historic submariner

Commander, Submarine Squadron Fifteen formally dedicated Konetzni Hall during a ceremony April 19, in Piti, Guam. The building, named after Vice Adm. (ret.) Albert Konetzni, has served as the CSS-15 and Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific Detachment Guam headquarters building since 2013 although it was never formally named.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam memorialized Tina, Jeff, that guy who steals your phone every year and other former Cyberawareness Challenge characters. JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM TWITTER
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'Live on in Valhalla': The internet pays tribute to departed Cyber Awareness Challenge characters

Familiar characters Tina, Jeff and that guy who steals your phone every year are among the longtime stalwarts missing from the latest version of the Cyber Awareness Challenge, the Department of Defense’s annual computer security training.
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Stripes Egg Hunt will end on April 21! Hint for Guam

Colorful eggs (laminated picture of eggs) are scattered around the bases in the Pacific (mainland Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Guam)!