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  • Hickam completes Warrior Day training

    Active duty and Air National Guard Airmen joined forces in a Warrior Day July 31 to demonstrate the cooperation and capabilities of total force integration here. The day featured the participation of 15th Wing C-17 Globemasters III and F-22 Raptors from the 199th fight squadron, as well as KC-10

  • Yokota joint training brings the heat

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Trevor Alexis, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron fire protection NCO in charge of training, waits to enter a flashover trainer, Aug. 4, 2015, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Flashover, a near-simultaneous ignition of many objects in a confined room, creates a dangerous situation

  • Service members take to sky for proficiency training

    U.S. service members parachute from a C-130 Hercules Aug. 4, 2015, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Airmen, Sailors and Marines assigned to Joint Region Marianas took part in regular proficiency training to keep their airborne skills up to date and remain prepared for real-world missions. (U.S. Air

  • PACAF commander engages Kadena Airmen, families

    The Pacific Air Forces commander visited Kadena Air Base Aug. 2 through 4 to spend time with the men and women who make up Team Kadena and to better understand the base’s capabilities, quality of life and mission readiness.  This was Gen. Lori Robinson’s first visit to the 18th Wing since she took

  • TACPs control sky over Guam for joint training

    Several thousand feet above ground, Air Force pilots see the birds-eye view of the battle field: Every road, building and vehicle is laid out for them. However, what happens hidden from view, under cover of foliage or buildings eludes them.Deploying in small teams to augment combat units, Tactical

  • Securing Airspace: JBER supports PRSC tenant unit

    All around Alaska, and out into the Pacific, little white domes dot the mountainside, coastlines and islands -- the only tangible evidence of America's invisible armor.   The domes are operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by a small crew of mostly contracted civilian Airmen.   They drive up

  • Pilot for Day program fulfills Leukemia patient’s wish

    When 9-year-old Eddie Paul Bearb learned he would be granted one wish, he didn't have to think twice about what it would be.    Since as long as he and his parents can remember, Eddie Paul has wanted to be a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and July 30, he took his first true steps to achieving that

  • RED HORSE Airmen lend helping hands to Philippines community

    Airmen from the 554th RED HORSE Squadron here helped complete a humanitarian assistance project July 30 in the Philippines in support of the State Partnership Program. Eight members from Andersen Air Force Base, along with the Hawaii Army National Guard, Guam Army National Guard and Armed Forces of

  • Behind Yokota's airpower

    On a particularly warm summer day here at Yokota, the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron cryogenics lab Airmen welcomed the snow-white gas that poured out of the frozen metallic tube.   The cryogenics lab Airmen spent their morning providing liquid oxygen, or LOX, and liquid nitrogen, LIN, to the

  • Separated by life, reunited by Blue

    Shaking with excitement, Andrzej Pankowski struggled to stay awake into the early hours of the night, just to contact his older brother Jarek, located halfway across the world in northern Japan.   His phone call was met with both disbelief and reciprocated excitement.   Separated for nearly 10 years