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  • U.S.-Thai Airmen have a heart for handicapped children

    Servicemembers presented more than $1,300 in supplies to help Panyahukul Handicapped School students at a community outreach event during Cope Tiger, a multilateral joint and combined field training exercise in Korat, Thailand, March 18.The school staff welcomed U.S. and Royal Thai Air Force Airmen

  • Misawa Airmen work around the clock to receive supplies, aircraft

    More than a week after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Japan, Misawa Air Base has been working 24 hours a day to support Operation Tomodachi and recovery efforts. As of March 20, 72 aircraft have transited into the base, carrying more than 600 relief workers and support

  • Bioenvironmental techs test for toxins near Tokyo

    Among the typical crews for disaster relief in mainland Japan is an atypical crew. Amid concerns for the environment, and because Yokota Air Base is 143 miles south of the atomic energy plants that were damaged during the earthquake and tsunami, a two-man team from the 18th Aerospace Medicine

  • U.S. Marines help Thailand students gain in-sight

    U.S. Sailors and Marines visited students at a local school for the blind in Thailand March 18 during Exercise Cope Tiger 2011. Members of the Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, took time from their exercise schedule to visit the students of the

  • 374th Airlift Wing Commander takes to the air...waves

    To keep base residents informed on the latest issues affecting Yokota Air Base, Col. Otto Feather, 374th Airlift Wing commander, took to the airwaves on AFN's Eagle 810 radio station here March 20.In the broadcasted interview, Colonel Feather answered questions regarding base safety from the

  • First C-17 touches down in Sendai

    Members of the 517th Airlift Squadron of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, took part in a milestone relief support mission during Operation Tomodachi here March 20.Today marks the first C-17 Globemaster III to land in Sendai. The 517th AS delivered an all-terrain forklift to download supplies

  • HH-60s deliver supplies to decimated Kessenuma City

    Airmen from the 33rd Rescue Squadron flew two HH-60 helicopters to and from Kessenuma City, March 20, to deliver food, water and medical supplies to displaced people. Kessenuma City, situated along Japan's northeastern coast, received a devastating blow from the tsunami, March 11, losing much of its