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  • Alaska Reservist wins CrossFit divisional State Championship

    A Reservist was awarded first place in his division at the 2012 CrossFit Alaska State Championships in Anchorage Oct. 13. Lt. Col. David Piffarerio, 302nd Fighter Squadron commander, competed in the over 40 male category of the first annual CrossFit competition during the Fitness Expo at the

  • Fighting fires side by side

    Whether Wolf Pack firefighters are climbing stairs in a smoke-filled house or running toward a flaming aircraft, they want to know the men at their sides have their backs.In a crisis like a fire, it's critical to make swift decisions without hesitation. Joint training with the Republic of Korea Air

  • Pacific Trends visits Tumon Bay

    Pacific Trends, Band of the Pacific-Asia popular music ensemble, played inside the Outrigger Hotel lobby as part of their three-performance tour to Guam on Oct. 14.Pacific Trends, stationed at Yokota Air Base, Japan, uses its variety show of popular American and Japanese tunes to accomplish its

  • Kunsan Airmen visit rice festival, temple

    About 60 Kunsan Airmen took the chance Oct. 14 to visit a local temple before heading to the Gimje Horizon Festival.Both of these South Korean spots gave Americans the chance to learn more about their host country's culture up close.

  • Flight medicine: a flight of their own

    -- Personnel from the 36th Wing Medical Group and flight medicine clinic had a chance to see their patients immersed in their work environment during an incentive flight Oct.11 here."One of flight and operations medicines many responsibilities include ensuring our deployers' medical needs are met,"

  • Pacific Thunder gets jump start at Osan

    For the fifth straight year, 31st and 33rd Rescue Squadron Airmen from Kadena Air Base, Japan, have teamed up with the 25th Fighter Squadron here to kick off Exercise Pacific Thunder 2012.The two-week exercise, focused entirely on combat search and rescue operations, began Oct. 11 and is scheduled

  • Airmen support monthly clean-up around local community

    Volunteers from Yokota met up for the monthly Mizuho, Japan Clean-up hosted by the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron on Oct. 11, 2012. Every month, about 11 volunteers from around base help the local community by picking up bottles, cans, cigarette butts and other assorted garbage along the