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  • Supporting mission: 611th ASUS ensures island functions

    Air Force jobs run nearly the entire occupational spectrum, including every trade from piloting to carpentry to logistics. The men and women of the 611th Air Support Squadron Quality Assurance team sum all of those occupations and add another: running an island.On June 11, the QA team finished a

  • F-15 Eagle: Timeless airframe with modern capabilities

    For more than 40 years the F-15 Eagle has defended the skies with a track record of success unlike any other fighter jet in the history of aviation.While the airframe has been aging, generations of hard work from maintainers, engineers and pilots has kept the aircraft lethal, advanced and relevant

  • Weather flight increases bilateral knowledge

    A member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force weather station joined the 374th Operations Support Squadron weather flight during a shadow program at Yokota Air Base June 14. The program enables members from both services to exchange information to gain knowledge on how their counterparts perform the

  • PACAF, PACFLT coordinate arrival of VAQ-138 detachment in Philippines

    After coordination and planning efforts by U.S. Pacific Command’s Joint Force Air Component Command headquartered at Pacific Air Forces, the first temporary detachment of U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft arrived at Clark Air Base, Philippines, June 15. This detachment,

  • Schoolchildren take field trip to visit PACANGEL dentists

    Approximately 187 children from Angchhum Trapeang Chhouk School in Kampot Province, Cambodia, took a morning fiel dtrip June 15 to Pacific Angel 16-2’s health services outreach location in order to receive oral hygiene education and fluoride treatments.

  • All night bright-maintenance increases operations

    With the sun barely dropping below the horizon maintenance Airmen with the 354th Aircraft Maintenance Unit work around the clock in almost 24 hours of sunlight pushing normal limits to turn jets for the next day’s RED FLAG-Alaska sorties.RF-A 16-2, the largest exercise of it’s kind in six years,

  • 'AIM' high: Loading the Aggressors

    Airmen with the 354th Maintenance Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base loaded Captive AIM-9 missiles to F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft June 14, 2016, during RED FLAG - Alaska 16-2. During the exercise, the 18th AGRS shares its knowledge with participating units and allies to ensure the best combat

  • 18th AMU secure jets for Red Flag-Alaska

    The 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base sharpened their combat skills June 15, 2016, during RED FLAG-Alaska 16-2, a Pacific Air Forces exercise that enables joint and international forces to train in a realistic threat environment.

  • Everyday hero: Airman’s quick thinking saves two from horrific crash

    A sunny afternoon turned tragic when out of nowhere a car sped off a busy road landing nose-down, its velocity flipping it upside down before finally scraping to a halt off the side of the road.Senior Airman Ja’Mesha Pratt, 18th Operations Support Squadron airfield systems technician, had just