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  • Yokota Airmen provide Afghan military with 'props'

    Yokota Airmen used their skills to help fellow Airmen in the Afghan National Army Air Corps get off the ground and take control of maintaining Afghan national security.Yokota Airmen were tasked to package and ship 15 sets of propellers, three blades per set, to the ANAAC for their growing fleet of

  • Yokota community comes together to aid Japan in a Rockin' way

    More than 700 people gathered at Yokota Air Base's outdoor stage, Sakura Shell, to enjoy rockin' good music, good friends and good food during Tomodachi Stock 2011, here April 16.Tomodachistock was a free benefit concert designed to provide a venue for Yokota residents to donate to the American Red

  • ROTC cadets prepare for Air Force careers

    The mission of the United States Air Force ROTC program is to train America's future officers. The local detachment from the University of Alaska Anchorage, Detachment 001, did just that this past weekend on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Camp Mad Bull. At the end of every semester, the

  • F-22 Raptor simulator comes to roost at JBER

    Located in the 3rd Wing's Distributed Mission Operations Campus at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, the room which will eventually house the F-22 Raptor Full Mission Trainer simulator looks more like an F-117 Nighthawk stealth strike fighter turned inside out than the berth for a

  • Wolf Pack building for a better quality of life

    Planning, executing and marveling at work accomplished means just another day on the job for the 8th Civil Engineer Squadron. CE's mission is one that couldn't be more evident across Kunsan Air Base, Korea."When you flip on your lights or go to take a shower -- you expect the power and water to be

  • Homefront Heroes recognizes military families

    In order to celebrate "America's youngest heroes," the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Military and Family Support Services and Pacific Air Forces Civilian Advisory Council hosted a special Homefront Heroes event here April 15.Held quarterly, the event is an opportunity to give children of deployed

  • Misawa children roll-up their sleeves, pitch-in with volunteer efforts

    Shortly after 9 a.m. on April 12, 30 children climbed aboard a bus on Misawa Air Base. Being as it was spring break, the children were not headed to school. Instead, they were headed to Hachinohe to clean up an area devastated by the March 11 eastern Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami. The