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NASA Photo of the Day: Guam "Tip of the Spear" USA
ChamorroBible.org ^ | December 30, 2011 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Posted on 04/04/2013 6:33:28 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife


U.S. Territory of Guam photographed from the NASA Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on December 30, 2011. Map 1 and Map 2.
2013 x 3020, 2680 x 4020, 3346 x 5020, 4014 x 6021. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-201304.htm



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guam; island; pacific; territory
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1 posted on 04/04/2013 6:33:28 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife

Looks like it’s about to tip over.


2 posted on 04/04/2013 6:35:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EnjoyingLife

Amazingly awesome!


3 posted on 04/04/2013 6:35:46 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: EnjoyingLife

Fantastic photo.

Question for FReeprs: Why two airports? One civilian, one military? What sorts of aircraft can land there?


4 posted on 04/04/2013 6:39:37 AM PDT by Remole
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To: EnjoyingLife

When Guam tips over from all the new miltary equipment, which way will it fall? TIA


5 posted on 04/04/2013 6:41:11 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Remole
Why two airports? One civilian, one military?

Correct! One is their international airport, the other is Andersen Air Base.

6 posted on 04/04/2013 6:43:57 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Remole

The airport to the NE is Anderson AFB. The one in the middle is the commercial airport... which can handle everything up to and including 747s. I understand they cut the top off a mountain for it.

There’s also a US Naval Base located on the island - on the western tip. Very interesting island - lots of Japanese tourism, very scenic.


7 posted on 04/04/2013 6:47:23 AM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: Remole

What sorts of aircraft can land there?

All sorts...B52’s during Nam were out of there


8 posted on 04/04/2013 6:48:08 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: JRios1968

Another question to those with knowledge of these things....

Most airports have two runways, approximately 90 degrees rotated from each other, and these don’t. Is this because the prevailing winds are always in one direction?


9 posted on 04/04/2013 6:49:58 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Interesting. My Dad’s home for a period of time during WWII.


10 posted on 04/04/2013 6:51:48 AM PDT by Starstruck (Question. What would the U.S. look like today if there was no 2nd Amendment.)
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To: t1b8zs

Ah yes. Guam. My dad was stationed there in ‘47 and I went as an infant of 3 months old. (Holy crap! Am I getting old:()
Stayed until late ‘49. Don’t remember a thing. LOL! It was quite the Japanese “tourist” destination a few years before that too. LOL! Supposedly there was still a Japanese soldier hiding in the mountains until sometime in the ‘70’s I think. Man, I could have been picked off. I wasn’t. My sister remembers a lot about it since she was around 7 or so. Quonset hut living at it’s finest. The old films are hilarious.


11 posted on 04/04/2013 6:54:53 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Wyatt's Torch
"When Guam tips over..."

Setting aside that infamous comment, you DO kinda have the feeling of precarious isolation out there - When flying out there, you can't escape the thought that you're airborne over a looong stretch of water, hoping that the compasses are all working properly! Even after that, you're technically perched on top of one of the highest mountains on earth since going 'downhill' means decent into the Marianas Trench. It's more than a little weird until you get used to it.

12 posted on 04/04/2013 6:58:34 AM PDT by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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To: Starstruck

My Dad was there in WWII as well (July 1944), shooting at some of those Japanese tourists on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps.


13 posted on 04/04/2013 7:02:05 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: alancarp

My son served on the SSN Buffalo on Guam for four years 2007-11


14 posted on 04/04/2013 7:12:28 AM PDT by Elderberry
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To: EnjoyingLife

Guam has some of the niceist people and best snorkling in the world. The ecology however is an example of what happens when man tries to play God. What a mess.

And the Habu’s! That is one nasty snake.


15 posted on 04/04/2013 7:20:33 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel
And the Habu’s! That is one nasty snake.

Is that the brown snake imported from Australia. Taken over the island. IIRC Very poisonous.

16 posted on 04/04/2013 7:37:05 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: JRios1968

Correction

One is Anderson, on the tip, the other is NAVAL AIR STATION Agana, which is SHARED with the international airport.

The naval base and the naval magazine are along the coast.

BTW, when I was stationed there in the early ‘70s, the people did NOT like HAOLIES and were extremely unfriendly. Violence was an every day affair.

I was thrilled to leave the place.


17 posted on 04/04/2013 7:45:59 AM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: lacrew
Most airports have two runways, approximately 90 degrees rotated from each other, and these don’t. Is this because the prevailing winds are always in one direction?

Seems like it.

18 posted on 04/04/2013 10:08:07 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Travis McGee

WOW!!!!!


19 posted on 04/04/2013 10:46:18 AM PDT by maica (Welcome to post-rational America.)
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To: maica

I’d love to go back, but a faster way than I went the last time.


20 posted on 04/04/2013 11:03:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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