repatriation exercise
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has informed cabinet members that it’s the administration’s “collective pledge” that no action will be taken on a repatriation flight for stranded local residents “until we are absolutely sure” that the actions taken will “prevent the entry of...

![ASG first responders and other personnel assembled late Thursday afternoon at the newly renovated arrival terminal (financed with federal and local share funds, not COVID-19 funds) to await the start of the full-blown repatriation exercise at Pago Pago International Airport simulating an arrival of a repatriation flight with 300 passengers on board. The governor praised the exercise, but still no official word if repatriation is going to happen. [photo: courtesy] ASG first responders and other personnel](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fp_mg_0607.jpg?itok=Dtj-Ix6A)