The Air Force inactivated the 613th Contingency Response Group at Andersen AFB, Guam, replacing it with the 36th CRG to mirror the unit’s placement under the 36th Air Expeditionary Wing. The group fell under 13th Air Force until May 2005.
Just days after a Defense Intelligence Agency report predicted new ballistic missile testing by North Korea, the Pyongyang regime fired a a submarine-launched ballistic missile which landed in the Sea of Japan. While U.S. Indo-Pacific Command downplayed the test as representing no new threat to the U.S. or regional allies,…