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  • Air Force leaders say strategy calls for F-22, F-35 capabilities

    Fifth-generation fighter aircraft are key to America maintaining domain dominance in the years ahead, Air Force officials said here Jan. 24.Lt. Gen. Christopher D. Miller, the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs, and Maj. Gen. Noel T. "Tom" Jones, the service's director for

  • U.S., Japan forces enhance partnership during Keen Edge 2012

    U.S. Air Force Airmen from Hawaii, Japan and other locations around the world joined with joint and Japanese partners Jan. 22.The command post exercise, known as Keen Edge '12, features participation by approximately 600 U.S. and 1,300 Japanese Self Defense Force representatives. During Keen the

  • Deicer keeps the mission from freezing

    A large cloud hovers in the sky, darkening as the low temperature causes a unique crystalline structure to form, and drops it towards the land below. The snowflake is joined by billions of other snowflakes, one tiny piece of a blizzard, common in this region in the winter. The snowflake lands on the

  • Kadena chief set to retire, compares past, present

    With only a few days left, time is running out for one Kadena enlisted leader.Chief Master Sgt. Mychael Bland, 18th Operations Group superintendent who has served the U.S. Air Force longer than the average age of all enlisted Airmen, plans to draw the final curtain on his Air Force career following

  • New enlisted club rejuvenates Osan spirit

    In recent month's members of the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron have been working with Korean contractors to construct a state-of-the-art enlisted club facility at Osan Air Base. The facility, which costs an estimated $13 million, will be the last club built solely for enlisted service members in the

  • National Guard Rescue Squadrons make weekend rescue

    On Dec. 31, 2011, 11th Air Force Rescue Coordination Center mobilized the 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons, sending their crews through Eielson Air Force Base to begin search and rescue operations of two hunters stranded near Bird Creek .According to the RCC, a father and son had set out on a

  • 13 AF receives top CFC level of recognition

    For the 2011Hawaii-Pacific Combined Federal Campaign, the Jungle Warriors of 13th AirForce accounted for more than 23 percent of the money raised for the joint base and received the highest level of recognition.On behalf of the 13th AF staff, Lt. Cmdr. Mike Norton from the 613 Air and Space