Joint Region Edge 5.4.12-SATCOM Establishing connections of astronomical proportions
// May 03, 2012
He recalls being deployed to Madagascar with a team of four. The country was in a civil war. With an army coupe ousting its leader, the country was left in violent turmoil. The ambassador asked Africa command to send its advanced echelon team to help formulate a course of action for evacuating the citizens in case the situation worsened. With an Army lieutenant colonel, a sergeant major and an intelligence analyst, he remembered being snuck into the city. They got through safely, establishing his equipment’s first-ever communications shot that far south of the equator.
Joint Region Edge 5.4.12-GHS hosts Far East Guam Regional Marksmanship Competition
// May 03, 2012
Guam High School’s (GHS) Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) hosted the Far East Guam Regional Marksmanship Competition for the first time this year that ended in a biathlon at Gab Gab Beach April 29.
Joint Region Edge 4.27.12-Guam Welcomes USS Chicago
// April 27, 2012
USS Chicago (SSN 721) arrived in Guam April 19 where it will be assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron 15 as one of three forward-deployed submarines.
