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  • Computers, jets and generators: specialists make the AMU

    Editor's note: This is part three in a six-part series highlighting the 13th and 14th Aircraft Maintenance Units.Airmen of the 13th and 14th Aircraft Maintenance Unit specialist flight at Misawa Air Base work as a team to complete one common mission: to keep F-16 Fighting Falcons in the air.The

  • CSAF visits Elmendorf Airmen

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and his wife Suzie visited Airmen here during a visit to Alaska Feb. 15 through 18. During the second day of his visit, the general, along with the 11th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Stephen Hoog and 673rd Air Base Wing Commander Col. Robert Evans, hosted

  • Pacific band wows crowd, spreads aloha during Singapore airshow

    The U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific - Hawaii, from Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Honolulu, Hawaii, performed for approximately 300 at the Singapore Air and Trade Show 2012 held here Feb. 14-19.During the show, where a  cross-section of U.S. military aircraft and equipment were on-hand to

  • Medics provide intensive care from above

    People may have seen the aftermath of a horrific car wreck and thought about what happened to the passengers inside, but Capt. Tina Hall, a critical care nurse, knows all too well what happens after the blaring sirens and flashing lights streak out of sight."One of my most challenging missions

  • Osan Airmen support Exercise Cobra Gold 2012

    Four Airmen from the 621st Air Control Squadron here deployed to Korat Air Base, Thailand, with the III Marine Expeditionary Force out of Okinawa, Japan, to support Exercise Cobra Gold 2012.Master Sgt. John Jones and Staff Sgt. Marcel Wright, weapons directors, and Master Sgt. Christopher Johnson

  • Team Andersen, RAAF, JASDF group to assist local community

    Team Andersen Airmen joined members from the Japan Air Self Defense Force and the Royal Australian Air Force to participate in a community beautification project in Dededo, Guam, Feb. 18.The community relations event volunteers joined efforts with one another to volunteer at three locations

  • Kadena's 'Fighting Cocks' named premiere fighter squadron in USAF

    On Feb. 16, Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff, announced that Kadena's 67th Fighter Squadron "Fighting Cocks" the winner of the Raytheon Trophy for 2011.The annual award, originally started by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1953, is now sponsored by Raytheon Systems Corporation and is

  • PACAF demonstration team performs during the 2012 Singapore Airshow

    To view exclusive photos of the Pacific Forces Demostration team during the 2012 Singapore Airshow click here. A cross-section of U.S. military aircraft and equipment are participating in the show through static displays and aerial demonstrations including B-52 Stratofortress, E-3 Sentry, C-17

  • JBER troops join forces for 6th Eng. airborne mission

    Sgt. Samantha Owens, 6th Engineer Battalion, surveyed the expansive Alaska landscape covered with a fresh blanket of crystalline snow, resplendent under a cloudless blue sky.She might have had time to enjoy the stunning view if she wasn't suspended from a T-10 Delta parachute, hurtling toward solid