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  • Pacific Trends fills every seat in Saitama

    Pacific Trends, Band of the Pacific-Asia popular music ensemble, traveled to Saitama, Japan, to perform for an audience of approximately 425 at the Saitama Super Arena Keyaki Square Oct. 2.The Band of the Pacific-Asia has been stationed at Yokota Air Base since 1988 and gives about 400

  • Assassins, Barbarians, Commandos go head-to-head

    Flights from the 8th Security Forces Squadron went head-to-head during the Defenders Challenge held here Sept. 28 to prove who could best execute specific tactics. The event pitted the Assassins, Barbarians and Commandos flights against each other and an admin team in a showdown of several combat

  • Comptrollers burn midnight oil to closeout Kunsan

    When midnight struck Sept. 30, financial analysts with the 8th Comptroller Squadron could finally take a breath -- they had successfully executed another fiscal year's closeout. Working long hours for weeks, the analysts reached Pacific Air Forces' goal of a 98 percent "soft closeout" by Sept. 20.

  • One family, one mission, a lifetime of readiness

    "I was riding on a bus watching kids walking home from school when the earthquake hit us," Staff Sgt. Alicia McQuay, 35th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management NCO in charge, reminisces. "One minute, everything's normal, the next minute kids are running around screaming and I'm wondering,

  • 18th CPTS, CONS outwit Mother Nature during fiscal year close out

    Members of the 18th Comptroller and Contracting Squadrons, along with resource advisors from across the base, successfully closed out the fiscal year budget despite Mother Nature's plans.Staff from the 18th CONS and CPTS worked late Sept. 28 to close out as much as possible before Typhoon Jelewat

  • 36th Wing Run and FOD Walk takes off

    Members of Team Andersen and their families participate in the monthly wing run here, Sept. 28. This month's wing run was approximately 3.5 miles and was followed by a foreign object debris walk on the flightline. These events are held to emphasize physical fitness and esprit de corps throughout the

  • Partnering nations celebrate Pacific Unity 12-6

    Members of the U.S. Air Force, Philippine Air Force, Philippine Army, local contractors, government officials, teachers, students, and community members came together at Cacutud Elementary school Sept. 20 for a closing ceremony to celebrate the work of the participants in the month-long Pacific

  • Jungle Air Force Det 1 furls its flag

    Six years after its activation, the 13th Air Force Detachment 1 here furled and cased its flag, and became part of Headquarters 5th Air Force during an inactivation ceremony, Sept. 26, 2012 at Yokota Air Base, Japan.The detachment's inactivation is part of the Air Force's efforts to reduce

  • Quality service is the best medicine

    Imagine coming to work and restocking more than 1,000 medications, preparing more than 300 prescriptions and answering telephone calls throughout the day all while managing a customer service counter. This is what the Yokota pharmacy clinic deals with on a daily basis.The 374th Medical Group

  • Yokota NCO gets selected for OTS

    A Yokota maintainer's passion and commitment to aviation and education recently became a dream come true. Staff Sgt. Galen Apo, 374th Maintenance Group quality assurance inspector, was selected to attend Officer Training School out of 507 applications throughout the U.S.Apo's drive for becoming an