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  • First ever PACAF/ROK nurse conference

    The first ever U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) Evidenced Based Military Nursing Conference was held in Dae Jeon, South Korea on Oct. 26 and 27. The U.S. team included Army, Air Force and Navy nurses from the Pacific theater and CONUS locations. Colonel Sandra Schmidt-Berringer was the senior

  • New aggressor units expand training capabilities

    Unit changes at Nellis and Eielson Air Force bases have resulted in two wings that, together, create better opportunities for Air Force pilots to train for combat against potential adversaries. In January, the 65th Aggressor Squadron was reactivated under the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis

  • PACAF commander advises discretion in cyberspace

    First proposed in 1929 by a Hungarian writer in a short story titled "Chains," the theory states that every person on earth is connected to every other person within six degrees. With the advent of the Web, those connections are much easier as humanity is connected by the keyboard and mouse and

  • 374 LRS vehicle operators return from Iraq

    After serving for nearly nine months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 14 Airmen from the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle operations flight returned home Nov. 13. While deployed to Kuwait and Iraq, the Yokota Airmen augmented U.S. Army convoy support operations by delivering and

  • PCS policy could extend officer assignments to four years

    Some officers could now spend as many as four years at a duty station before getting a new assignment. The Air Force is now looking for ways to reduce the number of station-to-station moves for officers, particularly for those in the United States. By extending the average assignment length for an

  • Unified Engagement 06 comes to an end

    In what has been deemed one of the largest multi-force, multi-national wargame simulations in the Pacific, Unified Engagement 2006 came to an end here Thursday. During the past week, more than 300 military and civilian members from five countries gathered at the Command Battle Training Center here

  • Former Andersen based 8th Air Force to become new cyber command

    During a media conference here Nov. 2, Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne said the 8th Air Force would become the new Air Force Cyberspace Command. "I am announcing the steps the Air Force is taking toward establishing an Air Force Cyberspace Command," the secretary said. "The new

  • Air Force, Navy wrap up joint mine exercise

    B-52 Stratofortress aircrews assigned to the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and the Navy's Mobile Mine Assembly Unit 8 completed a week-long joint sea mine laying exercise here Nov. 3. The 10-sortie exercise marked the largest number of weapons released by B-52s here since they arrived to Andersen

  • Osan participates in NEO exercise

    Nearly 700 households processed through Osan's Evacuation Control Center Oct. 27-28 as part of Courageous Channel 06-2 which tested all aspects of the U.S. Forces Korea non-combatant evacuation operation program. Osan's NEO program received the "BELL" of approval from the USFK commander. The NEO