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  • Buddy Wing 15-4: ROKAF, USAF ready together

    Wolf Pack pilots practiced combined flying operations with their Republic of Korea Air Force counterparts during Exercise Buddy Wing 15-4 here, June 1 through 5.During this iteration of Buddy Wing, the 8th Fighter Wing hosted Airmen from the 123rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing, Seosan

  • New USFJ, 5 AF leader assumes command

    Lt. Gen. John L. Dolan assumed command of U.S. Forces Japan, and Fifth Air Force during a change of command ceremony held June 5, 2015, here.Dolan, the former Chief of Staff U.S. Pacific Command, replaced Lt. Gen. Sam Angelella who retired June 5, 2015.Gen. Lori J. Robinson, Pacific Air Forces

  • Military working dog handlers take bite for training

    Military Working Dog handlers from the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marines attended a four-day MWD handler decoy training here June 3, designed to improve the MWD handlers decoy skills and increase their proficiencies as trainers of MWD ."The decoy is the sparring partner for a MWD; there is

  • Civil engineers plumb their way to brighter future for PACANGEL

    In the remote highlands high above Goroka, Papua New Guinea, sits Gahuku Primary School, the Pacific Angel engineering team's largest project. More than 1,000 students climb up and down rickety stairs daily while ferrying between eight classrooms with standing room only.Fourteen U.S. military civil

  • Six countries converge for PACANGEL Papua New Guinea

    A six-nation Pacific Angel 15-4 team arrived June 1 in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.The Pacific Angels -- doctors, dentists, plumbers and planners from Papua New Guinea, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Indonesia -- tumbled out of trucks in Goroka, a town

  • Colleges, universities to provide higher-level education in Pacific theater

    The Department of Defense awarded contracts to four colleges and universities to provide in resident college and graduate programs at overseas military installations across U.S. Pacific Command to include Mainland Japan, Okinawa, Korea and Guam. Universities will provide education programs for

  • Wolf Pack welcomes the Lobos

    The 8th Fighter Wing relies on more than two thousand permanently assigned Airmen to carry out its mission.On May 14, the Wolf Pack welcomed more than 250 South Dakota National Guard from the 114th Fighter Wing, Joe Foss Field, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They are deployed here as the 175th Fighter

  • Diamond in rough: Airman's recovery from haunted past

    Growing up, many of his childhood nights were spent staring through a gaping hole in his bedroom ceiling. He didn't know how it got there, but sometimes it served as a pleasant escape from the surrounding chaos. It gave access to the wide open Oklahoma sky and he positioned his mattress in the