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  • POL flight fuels JBER

    It's 10 below zero and snow is on the ground everywhere. Airman 1st Class Bradley Welsh climbs out of his fuel truck to walk on the freshly plowed runway. He hooks up his hose into an underground fuel line to fill the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane sitting on the tarmac. Welsh works with the crew

  • Misawa Students play Soccer in Sendai

    The City of Sendai extended an invitation for American elementary school students from Misawa Air Base to participate in a Japan-U.S. soccer exchange in Sendai City, April 1. Language barriers were surmounted and friendships born during a joint soccer game between American and Japanese children in

  • Osan Airmen maintain heavy weapons arsenal

    Staff Sgt. Katrina Aide, 51st Security Forces Squadron combat arms instructor, inspects a M2 Browning Machine Gun here, April 4, 2012. The M2 Browning Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed by John Browning toward the end of World War I and introduced to service in 1921. According to Staff Sgt.

  • Okinawa service members, families brave weather, break record to save babies

    Despite a seemingly torrential rain storm, more than 400 Kadena Airmen and their families showed up March 31, at Kadena's Risner Fitness Center to show their support and raise a record breaking $50,000 for the March of Dimes, March for Babies event.This amount not only doubled what was raised last

  • Cope Taufan 2012 under way in Malaysia

    The Pacific Air Forces-sponsored Exercise Cope Taufan 2012 kicked off here April 2, partnering Airmen from the U.S. Air Force and Royal Malaysian Air Force in efforts to improve interoperability and enhance combat capabilities.The biennial live-flying exercise between the two air forces includes

  • PACANGEL unbound by numbers, helps 3000 more

    Operation Pacific Angel, an ongoing humanitarian assistance mission conducted throughout the Pacific theater, was recently competed at the first location, Legazpi City, Philippines, for 2012. U.S. forces provided medical and engineering assistance, as well as forums for subject matter expert

  • U.S., Thai airmen and soldiers partner, jump for freedom

    More than 240 Thai and U.S. airmen and soldiers took part in a personnel drop over Lop Buri, Thailand to close out this year's Cope Tiger 2012 multilateral air exercise between the U.S., Thailand and Singapore which was held here March 12 through 23.Coined by combined exercise leadership as the

  • Joint medevac team transports critically-ill Marine from Japan to Hawaii

    A joint military and civilian medical team evacuated a U.S. Marine via a C-17 Globemaster II from Japan to Hawaii who required urgent cardiac and respiratory care due to severely infected lungs, here March 26. The 12-person Pacific Air Forces medical transport team, comprised of medical personnel