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  • Third time's a charm for Mrs. Yokota 2010

    Persistence paid off for Mrs. Forence Bigsby as she was named Mrs. Yokota 2010 during her third attempt at the crown.Forence is the wife of Master Sgt. Tracy Bigsby of the American Forces Network-Tokyo. She received the Mrs. Yokota 2010 crown from Heather Fife, Mrs. Yokota 2009, and wife of Maj.

  • Flight doctors took on Red Flag-Alaska patients, mission

    From Airmen and Marines ammunition experts to the weapons loaders, crewchiefs, maintainers and pilots; to achieve the mission, they all have to be fit to fight. Three flight surgeons, affectionately known as flight docs, kept about 2,000 Airmen and Marines fit to fight during Red Flag-Alaska. During

  • Risk reduction: ways to play it safe

    "People can never fully prevent sexual assault from happening to them," said Micaela Boling Sexual Assault Response Coordinator program assistant.The Department of Defense defines sexual assault as, "intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, threats, intimidation, abuse of

  • 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