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  • Airmen deliver toys, clothes to Thai orphanage

    Their eyes gleam with excitement and anticipation as Airmen delivered clothing, toys and school supplies to the children of the Welfare Foster Home March 18 in Udon Thani, Thailand.  The Airmen, who are here supporting Exercise Cope Tiger 15, and their spouses collected items from their home units

  • Cope Tiger 15 takes off

    The roar of jets filled the sky March 9 over central Thailand during Exercise Cope Tiger 15.With a focus on multinational interoperability and regional partnerships, aviation and ground units from the United States, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Republic of Singapore are participating in the

  • Wolf Pack Day: A day for resiliency

    The 8th Fighter Wing took a day to focus on the strategic importance of resiliency here, March 16, during what is now officially called, Wolf Pack Day.The morning began with a wing-wide "fun run" to not only foster unity but camaraderie amongst the wing. Airmen from all units across base, including

  • COMMENTARY - Airman faces heartache, remains resilient

    She wasn't supposed to die. It was the duty of the military member to face danger and possibly water the tree of freedom, right? It was supposed to be child birth, complete with laughter, joy and celebration at welcoming a new family member. What it became was a nightmare education that began by

  • COMMENTARY - Tohoku earthquake and tsunami: Four years later

    Four years ago today - March 11, 2011 - I was sitting in my office on Misawa Air Base, on the northern tip of the main island of Japan, when a massive magnitude-9 earthquake rocked the island nation.It was 2:46 p.m., and I was finishing up my shift as a Stars and Stripes reporter. It was a slow news

  • MC-130Js visit Kunsan

    Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group from Kadena Air Base, Japan, visited Kunsan Air Base in support of the Special Operations Command Korea Exercise Gryphon Knife from Feb. 23 to March 3.Exercise Gryphon Knife is a habitual training exercise designed to integrate partners from the ROK

  • Aero India 15 showcases India-U.S. partnership

    From Feb. 18 through 22, more than 95 U.S. military personnel and Department of Defense civilians were among the thousands assembled from around the globe to participate in Aero India 2015, the region's largest tradeshow. "The tradeshow allowed the U.S. to strengthen its ties with India while

  • Space planning essential to battle success

    "Space, the final frontier," means a lot to people in different careers, but is the vast blackness filled with mesmerizing intergalactic-lights important to today's warfighter?According to Air Force Capt. Jamil Brown, 607th Air Operations Center chief of space plans, space is a newer concept to

  • USAF, U.S. Army host 15th annual NCO exchange for JASDF

    U.S. Air Force and Army service members hosted an NCO exchange here March 3, giving seven Japan Air Self-Defense Force members a chance to work with their U.S. counterparts.The JASDF Airmen were each paired with Kadena Airmen or Soldiers in their respective jobs for almost two weeks. This allowed

  • Total force effort enables Misawa exercise

    The 35th Fighter Wing reached out to an unlikely source to help support a week-long operational readiness exercise that wrapped up here March 5.Misawa needed to transport dozens of Airmen to the Republic of Korea in support of the exercise, but lacked airlift transportation. Nearly 2,000 miles away