SANTA RITA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Sailors from U.S. Naval Base Guam and its tenant commands helped prepare Marcial A. Sablan Elementary School to welcome students to the new school year Aug. 16. <\/p>\nTo help prepare the campus, Sailors prepared pamphlets, painted benches, curbs and parking lots, bush cut grass, swept walkways, and removed debris from the school grounds. <\/p>\n
Capt. Andy Anderson, commanding officer, U.S. Naval Base Guam, volunteered at the Agat school with his family and emphasized the importance for Sailors to be out in the community. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the military, what our job is really, is community service,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what the military is all about. It\u2019s about servicing people and taking care of humanity. What better place is there to do that than here at Marcial A. Sablan Elementary.\u201d <\/p>\n
Coastal Riverine Group 1 Det. Guam Master-at-Arms Ashley Byrd echoed Anderson\u2019s remarks and said she enjoyed the opportunity to help make a difference for youth on Guam. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for Sailors to give back to the community because we\u2019re not just Sailors, we\u2019re people as well,\u201d she said. \u201cWe care about what goes on in our community, whether it\u2019s in our home states or where we are serving at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acting Principal Geraldine Pablo said she was especially thankful for all the Navy volunteers\u2019 efforts. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel it\u2019s so awesome that the military is fostering volunteerism and helping the school community and becoming a part of the community at large on island,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019d like to thank the military for participating, and in particular the Navy, for assisting our school and the school community in preparing for the new school year.\u201d (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014Sailors from U.S. Naval Base Guam and its tenant commands helped prepare Marcial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":176770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,200,67],"class_list":["post-176768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-military","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}