{"id":404972,"date":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404972"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Navy-undersecretary-meets-with-Guam-acting-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Navy-undersecretary-meets-with-Guam-acting-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy undersecretary meets with Guam acting governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASAN, Guam\u2014<\/strong>Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven met with Guam\u2019s acting governor Joshua F. Tenorio last Jan. 10 at the governor\u2019s office in Adelup, Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders discussed the importance of the Indo-Pacific region. They also talked about regional stability and security, military presence on Guam, and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>They both emphasized Guam is a strategic hub and a valued partner of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Raven thanked Tenorio for his support to the Navy and Marine Corps and noted that service members, Department of Defense civilians and their families are proud to call Guam home.<\/p>\n<p>The undersecretary expressed the Department of Navy\u2019s commitment and continued investments to the Indo-Pacific region, while also talking about the importance of military efforts to defend America\u2019s interests and those of our allies and partners.<\/p>\n<p>Following their meeting, Raven will visit defense facilities and speak with military leaders and service members. He will also meet with several Guamanian civilian community leaders to listen and talk about the importance of the region and role of the military during this era of strategic competition.<\/p>\n<p>Raven will depart Guam in Jan. 11 and then travel to Hawaii to meet with senior military leaders and speak with sailors and Marines.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Navy looks forward to continuing to enhance our presence, partnership and power projection capabilities of the U.S. military in the Indo-Pacific. <em><strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c9d036702122a1a7ac848fb771efe1c0.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven meets with Guam acting governor Joshua Tenorio during a visit to Guam, Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p>-US NAVY<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/88cd24b0b8f6c01934a7036a08bcfd63.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven is traveling to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility to meet with military leaders, government officials, community leaders, and service members to discuss the importance of regional security and stability and defense of American interests, as well as allies and partners.<\/p>\n<p>-US NAVY<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/55e55470bd588b17b945eb82c69f5e59.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven thanked Guam acting governor Joshua Tenorio for his support to the Navy and Marine Corps and noted that service members, Department of Defense civilians and their families are proud to call Guam home.<\/p>\n<p>-US NAVY<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASAN, Guam\u2014Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven met with Guam\u2019s acting governor Joshua F&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404972","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}