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ASAN, Guam (Dec. 10, 2024) - The Honorable Lou Leon Guerrero, governor of Guam, and senior military leaders on Guam track a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA as it intercepts a surrogate Medium Range Ballistic Missile target off the coast of Guam during the Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Experiment Mission-02 (FEM-02), from the Joint Region Marianas Regional Operations Center, Dec. 10. Held concurrently, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s capabilities exercise Sling Stone leveraged FEM-02 to validate the Guam Defense System concept of operations. Sling Stone brought together assets and personnel from the Air Force, Army, Navy, and allied forces to use FEM-02 for multi-domain operations training. (U.S. Navy photo by William Busby III)