Navy Beefs up Guam

As the article says, this is one base in the West Pacific we don't have to negotiate access to. From GovExec:

...signs of change for Guam are already taking root, with the announcement late last month that the majority of the 7,000 Marines moving out of Okinawa, Japan, will relocate to Guam between 2008 and 2012.
In addition, the Navy might station as many as six additional nuclear submarines at the island, already home to three subs. And the Air Force plans to station some of its F/A-22 fighter jets on the island, as well as three massive Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles, among other possible aircraft, not to mention the possibility of the aircraft carrier, which would bring with it roughly 5,000 sailors on the carrier and an associated air wing.