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Dec. 8, 2016
Eielson Airmen build ice bridge for mission efficiency

Ice crystals build up on eyelashes and face masks and ice chunks drag from the bottoms of pants as Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron brave the frozen tundra to construct an ice bridge to the Blair Lakes Range Maintenance Complex.With temperatures reaching 40 degrees below zero, these
Dec. 8, 2016
Air Force signs Record of Decision selecting Tinian for the PACAF Divert Activities, Exercise Initiative

The Air Force signed the Record of Decision selecting Tinian International Airport, Tinian, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, specifically the North Option, as the location for the Pacific Air Forces Divert Activities, Exercise Initiative location, Dec. 7, 2016. Tinian’s
Dec. 7, 2016
U.S., Japan offer respect to USS Arizona in Blackened Canteen ceremony

A damaged canteen recovered from the wreckage of a crashed World War II-era B-29 Superfortress in Shizuoka, Japan, is displayed at the USS Arizona Memorial at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during the Blackened Canteen reconciliation ceremony, Dec. 6, 2016. During the annual ceremony, U.S.
Dec. 7, 2016
Dinner honors lives lost, begun during Dec. 7 attacks

Hundreds of U.S. Airmen, spouses and friends joined the Hickam Historical Society at the Hickam Historic Officer’s Club for a remembrance dinner, Dec. 6, 2016, honoring 10 survivors and those lost during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Hickam field.The dinner, part of an island-wide joint commemoration
Dec. 7, 2016
Survivors, friends, families remember Hickam Field attacks in 1941

On the morning of Dec. 7th, servicemembers and their friends and families gathered here to remember the fatal attacks on Hickam Field in 1941.
Dec. 6, 2016
JBPH-H dedicates tower to Dec. 7 attacks veteran Lt. Gen. Gordon A. Blake

Three generations of family, friends and members of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam community gathered to honor and remember U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Gordon A. Blake during a tower dedication ceremony Dec. 5, 2016.
Dec. 6, 2016
Operation Christmas Drop begins at Andersen AFB

Military members from the U.S. Air Force, Coast Guard and Navy, with international support from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force are joining forces to airdrop and deliver donated toys, clothes, food items and other necessities to remote islands across the Pacific as
Dec. 5, 2016
Family, friends honor fallen Hickam sergeant

Swanson, a 95-year-old survivor of the Dec. 7th, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu was reciting a song in memoriam of his late friend, Sgt. James Strickland, during the dedication of Strickland’s memorial marker Dec. 4, 2016.
Dec. 3, 2016
U.S. servicemembers remember those who fell during Pearl Harbor attack in 1941

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Johnnie Anderson, a dental technician with the 15th Aeromedical Squadron, places a lei around a commemorative U.S. flag near a gravemarker at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 3, 2016. Anderson placed multiple flags during a commemoration
Dec. 2, 2016
B-52s deploy to Guam for short-term mission

Three B-52 Stratofortresses from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 2.

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