Video by Lance Cpl. Rey Moreno Marilao | Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz | 12.05.2024
The Camp Blaz cultural resources team partnered with U.S. Navy Seabees at Naval Base Guam and the International Archeology team to continue preserving ancestral CHamoru remains found on Camp Blaz, Dec. 5, 2024. During the construction of the Urban Training Complex, archeologists discovered five sites each with at least one burial dating to the Latte Period. All CHamoru burials at Mokfok were......
Video by Lance Cpl. Rey Moreno Marilao | Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz | 09.20.2024
The single mature Serianthes nelsonii tree on Guam, located at Ritidian Point (also known as Litekyan in CHamoru), succumbed to severe damage sustained during Typhoon Mawar in May of 2023. By September of 2024, there was no living tissue observed on the decomposing remains of the tree. Leading up to the typhoon, the Ritidian tree was already in very poor condition due to a split trunk that led......
Video by Cpl. Alex Fairchild | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 01.26.2023
B-roll of U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David W. Maxwell, the commanding general of Marine Corps Installations Command, giving his remarks during the recognition of the Blaz grandsons at Dusit Thani Guam Resort, Guam, Jan. 26, 2023. Maxwell presented a gift to Vince and Josh Blaz, the grandsons of retired Brig. Gen. Vicente “Ben” Thomas Garrido Blaz, as part of the Reactivation and Naming......
Video by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Beauchamp | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 01.16.2023
B-roll of construction and memorial Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, Guam, Jan. 16, 2023.To prepare for the reactivation of MCB Camp Blaz, new facilities were under construction to accommodate future incoming units. The military presence in Guam plays an essential part in the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps’s 2030 Force Design’s goal of shifting the Marine Corps’ mission to the......
Video by Senior Airman Aubree Owens | 36th Wing | 07.13.2021
U.S. Air Force members assigned to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, participate in learning CHamoru with assistance from fellow Guam native coworkers, friends and mayors at Andersen AFB, July, 13, 2021. The Airmen were given the opportunity to learn more about the language and culture on Guam, which strengthens their friendships and partnership with the residents of Guam. (U.S. Air Force video......
