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  • 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

  • Take this job and love it: CATM instructors teach Airmen defense skills

    Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series called "Take this job and love it," which are stories based on service members with interesting careers and their experiences.For Airmen, weapons qualification at the Combat Arms Range is a normal part of being in the Air Force. But for the instructors

  • Kadena NAF Human Resources Office best in AF

    The largest and best Air Force Non-appropriated Funds Human Resources Office resides right here on Kadena.The 18th Force Support Squadron NAF HRO was recently recognized as the best in the Air Force for 2011."Our non-appropriated fund Human Resources Office is a key reason the 18th Force Support

  • Exercise KIWI FLAG kicks off in New Zealand

    Over the next two weeks two C-17 Globemaster IIIs and 70 Airmen from the U.S. Air Force are participating in the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Exercise KIWI FLAG as part of the larger 75th anniversary of the RNZAF celebrations. Exercise KIWI FLAG is a multilateral, tactical air mobility exercise

  • Service members team up, save life

    The aeromedical evacuation of a U.S. Marine, March 26, who suffered complications from pneumonia marked the first ever extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, transfer performed with an adult in the Western Pacific region.An ECMO provides cardiac and respiratory oxygen support to patients with

  • 18th Wing Public Affairs wins AF, PACAF awards

    The 18th Wing Public Affairs office was recently recognized by Air Force headquarters for superior performance.The public affairs team received the 2011 Best Integrated Communication Award from Brig. Gen. Les Kodlick, director of Air Force Public Affairs, for effectively implementing public affairs

  • 18th Wing Protocol wins PACAF award

    The 18th Wing Protocol office was recently recognized by Pacific Air Force headquarters for superior performance.The protocol office received the George Washington Award for Protocol Excellence for 2011 by providing exceptional protocol support to the largest Air Force combat wing, which includes

  • Air Defense Command commences operations at Yokota

    A crowd of senior-ranking U.S. and Japanese military leaders gathered here March 26 to celebrate the beginning of Air Defense Command operations at Yokota Air Base.The ADC headquarters, which conducts command and control operations to defend Japanese airspace, was relocated from Fuchu Air Base as