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  • State of the art equipment bridges the gap

    The Army Corps of Engineers along with the 84th Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Battalion, recently tested a new bridging system designed to help the military traverse a wide variety of terrain, quickly. Testing of the Lightweight Modular Causeway System took place over two days during Arctic

  • Misawa JROTC sets precident: First DOD school to win national academic bowl

    Misawa's Robert D. Edgren High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corp academic team won the national 2010 Air Force JROTC Academic Bowl championship, held April 24 at Bowling Air Force Base, Washington D.C. The team represented the first Department of Defense school to compete at the

  • USAF chaplains ASIST ROKAF counterparts

    Republic of Korea Air Force Chaplain Corps personnel from across the peninsula gathered at Osan this week for Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training facilitated by U.S. Air Force chaplains. The occasion marked the first time joint training had been conducted between chaplains of the allied air

  • Man's best friend makes big find

    It was another routine day just outside Camp Taji, Iraq for Staff Sgt. Terry Mace and his K-9 partner, Palli.It was an early November morning, and the two were doing their usual cache weapons search in the nearby town of Tarmiyah.Sergeant Mace gave Palli the go ahead to do what he was trained to do.

  • Air Force career jump starts Airman's childhood dream

    Being an aircraft mechanic is helping Senior Airman Brian Heimgartner, who is assigned to the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan, realize a childhood dream.Airman Heimgartner has wanted to be a crop-duster ever since he was child growing up in Kendrick, Idaho, and the Air

  • Misawa breaks down social media barriers

    With the widespread use of social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter, the lines between computing at home and work have become blurred. Social media, bloggers and forums have grown past their infancy and now provide an ever-expanding wealth of information on nearly any topic.In