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  • Airmen support Japan relief efforts

    More than a dozen Airmen from the 517th Airlift Squadron and one 673d Air Base Wing videographer took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Saturday, to fly support missions between U.S. Air Force bases in Japan.The island nation, which is home to tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel,

  • Traumatic Brain Injury clinic promotes awareness

    March is Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness month and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, has its 673d Medical Group's TBI clinic continuously demonstrating the importance of awareness.Becoming self-aware of a brain injury can be difficult because the patient's brain isn't at its best, according

  • RAAF C-17 flying around the clock in Japan

    The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is working around the clock to help ferry personnel and supplies from Okinawa to the Japanese disaster zone as part of Operation Pacific Assist - the ADF component of the Australian Government's assistance to Japan following the earthquake and tsunami on 11

  • Combat Shadow crew conducts refueling in support of Operation Tomodachi

    An MC-130P Combat Shadow crew from Yokota Air Base's 17th Special Operations Squadron successfully refueled four HH-60 helicopters conducting search and rescue operations off the shores of northeastern Japan, March 18. The Shadow crew left Yokota AB in the late morning to fly to Matsushima Airfield,

  • 51st LRS supports Operation Tomodachi during ORE

    The 51st Logistics Readiness Squadron processed 18,000 pounds of cargo here March 14 in support of Operation Tomodachi.The supplies were being transported to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Group to continue humanitarian aid missions off the east coast of Honshu, Japan.Originally this cargo was scheduled

  • Special-ops Airmen open strategic runways for relief operations

    Airmen and aircraft from the 353rd Special Operations Group assisted Japanese officials in opening two key runways to support relief operations in northern Japan March 16.Facilities and airfields at Matsushima Air Base and Sendai Airport were damaged by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting

  • Bomber squadron concludes swap out, heads home

    Approximately 250 Airmen and six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft are preparing to pack up and head home after an action-packed, five-month deployment here.Airmen from the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Minot Air Force Base, N.D., began arriving in November 2010 in support of Andersen's continuous