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  • Team Yokota launches 'Toys for Tomodachi'

    Starting March 31, wing leadership at Yokota Air Base, Japan, are sponsoring a week-long toy drive in support of Japanese families displaced by the recent earthquake and tsunami.The drive, dubbed "Toys for Tomodachi," is part of overall relief efforts members of Team Yokota continue to

  • American Red Cross plays a key role in Yokota's disaster relief assistance

    Twenty days may not seem like a long period of time for some people, but just imagine how long that would seem for someone who is helping to support 24-hour emergency relief operations.For members of the Yokota community who teamed up with American Red Cross staff to support disaster relief

  • Rebuilding Sendai Airport: A photographic journey

    A dedicated team of U.S. and Japanese forces, catalyzed by the 320th Special Tactics Squadron from Kadena Air Base, worked to clear rubble, rebuild and ultimately reopen Sendai Airport -- located in the section of Japan that was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Click here to view

  • Yokota's eyes and ears in Operation Tomodachi

    When engaged in a large effort like Operation Tomodachi, the U.S. Air Force effort to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the government of Japan in the wake of the March 11 disasters. military units need a centralized way to process and coordinate mission-essential details. The

  • Yokota Airmen tackle Herculean airlift missions into Sendai

    Over the past two weeks, Sendai Airport has served as a critical relay point for relief efforts throughout northeastern Japan, and the Airmen of the 36th Airlift Squadron are working to ensure that the airport stays open for business.Since the incapacitated airport reopened to air traffic, the 36th

  • Maintainers build mount for Fukushima sensors

    Since March 11, Airmen all over Yokota Air Base have performed key tasks in support of Japanese relief efforts, but for two Airmen the work took a greater personal significance March 28. The two Airmen, aircraft structural maintainers with Yokota's 374th Maintenance Squadron, worked late into the