The Guam Initial Response Readiness Exercise, an island-wide program that teams Pacific Air Force’s 36th Wing at Andersen AFB, Guam, with Naval Base Guam, kicked off in 2005 to coordinate training on war plan deployments and joint disaster response efforts. Starting next week, this year’s installment (now planned for every quarter) will be an expanded effort featuring Guam Army and Air National Guard along with Guam’s Civil Defense and Homeland Security joint team, as well as the formation of Joint Task Force Homeland Defense-Guam.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…