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  • 35th Fighter Wing reaches 2012 flying hour quota

    While sitting in the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, Capt. Ruben Amezaga, 14th Fighter Squadron C-Flight commander, glanced at the clock as the sun lowered and its pinkish-orange glow signaled the end of another day at Misawa. Unfortunately for Amezaga, it wasn't like any other day. It

  • Airmen showcase C-17 to New Zealanders

    Thousands of New Zealanders visited the Christchurch International Airport for a chance to get a glimpse inside the cockpit of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, which deployed to Christchurch from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Sep. 29 in support of Operation Deep Freeze 2012.Airmen from the 62nd

  • Discovery Channel documents "Mighty Plane" C-17 Globemaster III

    The show "Mighty Planes" took aim at a new plane in the C-17 Globemaster III, and the Discovery Channel was here to film the versatile cargo plane from Sept. 20 to Wednesday. "The whole show Mighty Planes is exactly what it is, it's planes that are 'mighty;' that are big," said Stephen Grant,

  • JBER HOME TO UNIQUE P38 Lightning

    Flying through a January sky in 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith was piloting a P-38G Lightning - one of the Air Force's best aircraft during World War II. The plane, equipped with two engines and relatively long wings, was a beautiful sight, and Nesmith worked hard to be in a

  • Thirteenth Air Force inactivates, merges with PACAF

    The Thirteenth Air Force, headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, inactivated on September 28, 2012, in a ceremony which celebrated its seventy-year history of supporting the Pacific region. The operational roles and responsibilities of 13th Air Force will be assumed by Pacific Air Forces,

  • 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,