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  • Civilian fuels chief recognized with USAF award

    You think your tank is tough to maintain? Try keeping up with a vehicle which stores and distributes more than 12.5 million gallons of fuel per year.That's what Bill Wackerman, chosen as the 2010 John F. Lavin Fuels Civilian Leader of the Year, does every day. Here on Joint Base

  • Yokota students showcase soroban skills

    May 25 was just a regular day for many people in Japan, but for 120 elementary and middle-school students in Department of Defense schools from Yokota and the surrounding Kanto Plains area, it was more -- it was the day of the soroban competition.The soroban is an abacus, or counting tray, developed

  • Collaboration eliminates explosive risk, preserves endangered tree

    The discovery of two World War II era bombs at Northwest Fieldat Andersen Air Force Base launched the formation of a cohesive team whose work culminated in the successful detonation of the ordnance May 17.Members of the 36th Wing, U.S. Coast Guard, Guam Police Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife

  • New firing range 'shoots down' time, costs

    Kadena Air Base's newly-refurbished Combat Arms firing range is now loaded and ready for the approximately 100 soon-to-deploy Airmen that usually pass through the range each week.After the completion of a series of lengthy renovations to Kadena AB's old range, Airmen  will no longer have to transfer

  • Nondestructive Inspection Flight save lives

    Inspections are the Air Force's primary tool to ensure that its equipment and personnel are ready at a moment's notice.What distinguishes the members of the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron's Nondestructive Inspection Flight at Kadena Air Base is their seemingly innate ability to locate cracks in

  • Children join in Osan's emergency management exercise

    Emergency responders at Osan  Air Base, Korea, practiced a newly drafted humanitarian evacuation plan during an Emergency Management Exercise May 23. The scenario was fairly familiar:  Japan supposedly experienced a devastating earthquake that made it necessary for Americans stationed there to

  • POW/MIA Walkway Dedication Ceremony at Osan

    The Air Force Sergeant's Association, Chapter 1556, hosted a POW/MIA Walkway Dedication Ceremony here May 21. The walkway was sponsored by the association and individuals around Osan Air Base in order to remember warriors who gave the ultimate sacrifice and have not made it home. The project was

  • PACAF teams pull together to execute life-saving mission from American Samoa

    In the early hours of the morning of May 22, a C-17 Globemaster III  from the 535th Airlift Squadron departed on a moment's notice for Pago Pago, American Samoa, carrying medical crews from the 13th Air Force Surgeon General's office and the18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron to save the life of a