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  • Yokota CATM keeps Airmen "on target"

    Security forces personnel have always played a vital role in Yokota's mission. However, one of the more unnoticed aspects of security forces is their commitment to ensuring that Yokota Airmen are proficient in combat arms.Combat arms training and maintenance instructors provide ground weapons

  • Courageous Channel exercise tests non-combatant capabilities

    Families will participate in a peninsula-wide exercise that practices relocating them out of Korea. The non-combatant Evacuation Operations will be conducted May 16-19, 2012.Courageous Channel is a U.S. Forces Korea semi-annual NEO exercise. It is designed to train NEO-related mission essential

  • Andersen showcases capabilities during SMEE

    Host nation servicemembers spent five days visiting Team Andersen's Pacific Regional Training Center as part of U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Cooperation Program, a multilateral subject-matter expert exchange co-hosted by senior civil engineer and security forces personnel from

  • New Ambulance Policy Brings Greater Capabilities

    A new policy instated at Andersen Air Force base will allow ambulances and emergency medical technicians to operate at an Advanced Life Support status."Before, when we received a call that required advanced life support, ambulance services would have to meet off base with Guam ALS and have their

  • In service: with or without the uniform

    Out on the field he dons combat boots, an Airman battle uniform, interceptor body armor, blue baseball cap, and has a beard and a mustache. No, he is not an Airman out of regulations; he is a Department of Defense civilian who chooses to be out on the field with the unit."I chose to take part in

  • June 1 Sober is safer: Thinking then drinking

    Editor's note: Information for this article was provided by the Air Force Safety Center. The 2012 Critical Days of Summer safety campaign purpose has a goal to prevent the tragic loss and injury of Airmen during the summer. Drinking has become a part of many summer pastimes - before, during and

  • Yokota earns four AF-level safety awards for 2011

    Congratulations to Team Yokota for earning four 2011 Air Force-level safety awards. "Safety awards differ from a lot of the other awards out there because they require a full team effort to win. Capturing these particularly coveted Air Force and Pacific Air Forces-level awards spotlights how Yokota

  • Diesel Weasel Exercise trains Misawa pilots on Close Air Support

    Pilots from the 14th Fighter Squadron are training on close air support April 30 through May 17 at Misawa Air Base and Draughon Range, Japan, in support of the Diesel Weasel Exercise.The Diesel Weasel Exercise prepares pilots to conduct CAS before participating in a Green Flag Exercise at Nellis Air