US Navy submariners from Guam helped locals celebrate Saint Joseph during the 2018 San Jose Festival in early May:
Sailors assisted in transporting the statue from Inarajan Bay to the Saint Joseph’s Church on Saturday…
“I had a great time escorting Saint Joseph’s statue from Read more
“Your sexual orientation doesn’t relate to your job and it doesn’t relate to your successes in your career,” Bugenig said. “It’s your personal life.”
– Senior Airman Benjamin Bugenig, public affairs
SrA Bugenig was speaking in response to Beale Air Force Base conducting an LGBT Pride 5K Color Run to
recogniz[e] gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning servicemen and women. About 50 airmen participated in the event.
US troops participated in other Read more
An Air Force article on a homosexual/transgender pride “celebration” at Andersen AFB, Guam, noted the history behind the June event:
Pride Month is celebrated annually in the U.S. during June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, a tipping point for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement.
For those who haven’t looked it up, the “Stonewall Riots” were essentially a police raid of a “gay bar” that went bad, with patrons attacking the police. When the outnumbered police retreated to a building for their safety, the homosexual rioters attempted to set the building on fire. Read more
The US Air Force conducted its annual Operation Christmas Drop over Micronesia this year:
[Ongoing] since December 1952…Operation Christmas Drop is the longest running humanitarian airlift mission supported by the Department of Defense.
U.S. military service members, their families, and the people of Guam teamed up with the Christmas Drop Organization to ensure a successful mission. The Christmas Drop Organization is a private organization Read more
Airman First Class Timothy Pledger’s first flight out to deploy to Guam for six months was delayed, so he was able to spend a few more hours with his wife, who was due to have their child “any day.” His daughter decided to make her arrival at that moment, so Pledger had to help:
So Pledger returned home to be with his pregnant wife…Around 9 a.m., his wife’s water broke…
“The baby was already coming out. I called [emergency services] so they could give me step-by-step instructions on how to deliver the baby…”
After applying what the emergency personnel told him, a few minutes later his daughter was completely out and breathing normally.
A few hours later, Pledger got on an airplane and left for six months: Read more