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| | Guam Army National Guard |
 | | Guam has the highest membership per capita of all Guard organizations in the nation: 1,100 Guard members for 160,000 residents or.69% of Guam's population are active Guard members. |
 | | Guam Guard soldiers and airmen were are able to mobilize in 24 hours or less, as seen after the July 2002 Typhoon Chata'an and the December 2002 Super Typhoon Pongsona, and performed myriad of missions including debris cleanup, traffic control, search and rescue, reverse osmosis water production/distribution, crowd control, building reconstruction and tactical communications. |
 | | Guam remains the first and only U.S. soil to this date, with a sizeable population, to ever be occupied by a foreign military power for 31 months where the indigenous people were subjected to countless atrocities by occupying enemy forces. |
| www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arng-gu.htm (1406 words) |
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