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 preserved in place, and construction projects were redesigned to avoid burial sites. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Rey Moreno Marilao) (Photos courtesy of Lance Cpl. Afton Smiley)
Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz is proud to announce the start of the eighth Toys for Tots campaign in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. With a partnership between the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, First Lady Wella Foundation with the Office of the Governor, Associated Students of Northern Marianas College, and Rota Chamber of Commerce toy collection boxes will be placed at local businesses and government offices during the first...
On Sept. 28, 2024, the Guam State Historic Preservation Office will host a reinterment ritual aboard Skaggs Urban Training Complex, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz (formally Andersen South). The ritual will include the reinterment of ancestral bone fragments found during cultural resource investigations in Mokfok, Dededo.
Members of the media are invited to a media availability before the public, joint informational meeting for the Draft Environmental Assessment for the construction of new Department of the Interior (DOI) facilities and infrastructure at the Ritidian Unit of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge.
