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  • Cope Taufan 16 kicks off

    “We are doing high end force integration efforts, because that’s the way…if we had to fight…we would fight together in this security environment,” said Col. Travis Rex, United States Air Force Exercise Director.

  • Kadena KC-135, Minot B-52 Support RIMPAC

    Aircrew from the 909th Aircraft Refueling Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise over the Pacific Ocean, July 14, 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June

  • A ‘poopie’ mission: someone’s got to do it

    Look out below, bombs away or dropping a load are terms familiar to military operations, but they’re also synonymous with a different act necessary for all people. As the content of the bowels pass into a porcelain throne and the deed is flushed and forgotten, the end of the pipe isn’t just below

  • Citizen Airmen keep RIMPAC flying high

    One of the few common threads interwoven between the twenty-six nations and more than 200 aircraft participating in Rim of the Pacific 2016 is the need for fuel; a lot of it.

  • Joint Airborne Operation a success for 353rd SOG

    "One, two, three...five, six, seven...I see seven chutes," said an Air Force combat controller with the 353rd Special Operations Group, radioing back to the aircrew in the MC-130J Commando II that all jumpers were accounted for.

  • MWDs sniff out suspects in training scenario

    Military working dog handlers and their dogs, assigned to the 374th Security Forces Squadron, conduct training scenarios at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 12, 2016. The MWDs use their sense of smell to help handlers track suspects in addition to identifying hazardous or illegal substances.

  • Chief of Staff of the Air Force Visits JBPHH

    Gen. David L. Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, visis with Airmen from the 15th Maintenance Group and the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Maintenance Group on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 12, 2016. Earlier in the day, Goldfein officiated the Pacific Air Forces

  • 15th OSS airfield management ops tempo picks up for RIMPAC

    The Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s flightline activity is increasing as aircraft participating in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2016 arrive, this month, increasing the responsibilities of the 15th Operations Support Squadron Airfield Management Flight.