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  • AFAF video contest could bring you fame

    An awareness campaign, headed up by the Air Force Assistance Fund, takes aim with social media facilitating serious, funny and informational videos.The AFAF's YouTube page will feature the videos with the best content, cinematography, creativity and the most number of views. Winning videos will be

  • Local ROK students dubbed honorary pilots at Kunsan

    More than 20 sixth grade students from 20 different middle schools in the local area received a chance to participate in the first-ever 8th Fighter Wing Honorary Pilot Program here Nov. 4.The program gave students a taste of what an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot's life is like here at Kunsan. They were

  • Veterans Day remembered past, present, future

    On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the first of the World Wars, known then as the "Great War."During the war, the U.S. Army Air Service dropped 138 tons of bombs and was credited with shooting down 765 enemy

  • JBER civilian wins national award for work with families

    The military can look, especially to a new recruit or a spouse, like a labyrinth of foreign words and ideas. The chain of command and noncommissioned officers can seem impossible to understand; there are programs and briefings for so many things, and getting such a huge organization to change

  • Air Force JTAC shot by Taliban, returns with Purple Heart

    A 25th Air Support Operations Squadron Joint Terminal Attack Controller returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Oct. 31 following a six-month deployment to Afghanistan where he was shot by enemy forces.Senior Airman Jorge Henry, Jr., was shot in the right hand by a Taliban sniper during

  • Air Force Reserve pilot the first to reach 1,000 F-22 flight hours

    Lt. Col. David Piffarerio, 302nd Fighter Squadron commander, flew his 1,000 flight hour in the F-22 Raptor here Nov. 4, making him the first Air Force pilot to do so. "This is a great milestone for the pilots, maintainers and contractors working on the jet and the F-22 program as a whole," said

  • KSO athletes, volunteers thrive rain or shine

    More than 5,000 special-needs athletes, artists, volunteers and supporters showed up to the Riser Fitness Center on Kadena Air Base Nov. 5 for the 12th annual Kadena Special Olympics.Although the rainy weather stalled the opening ceremonies and some of the events, athletes and service members alike