- Audio Slide Show Cheryl: Well, most people have never heard
about Guam. Most people who do hear about it are mostly
Americans and even then most of these Americans that do hear
about it, they have family in the military or they know a friend
in the military and that’s because Guam is a big US base, a
military base. Guam is a little island in the middle of the
Pacific. It’s actually five hours from where you’re from, Nick,
five hours from Australia. And it’s about four hours from Hong
Kong and three and a half from Japan. So you can kind of gauge
based on those numbers just how much in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean Guam is. It’s about eighteen miles wide and
thirty-two miles long so it’s pretty, pretty small. Nick: So
it’s a part of America? Cheryl: Yeah, it’s a part of America.
The US military base there is actually the biggest in Asia
besides the one in Okinawa which is the islands south of Japan.
But it is supposedly the closest US soil...not supposedly, it is
the closest US soil to Asia. Nick: Oh reall