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  • Two F-22A Raptors taxi down the runway. A squadron of F-22 Raptors is scheduled to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan, as part of U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Package in the Western Pacific in early 2007. This will be the first overseas deployment for the Air Force's newest fighter. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker)

    F-22 scheduled for first overseas deployment

  • Maintainers keep planes flying at Cope Tiger

    Maintenance personnel are in Thailand as part of Exercise Cope Tiger '07. The A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Osan Air Base, Korea, are joined by planes from bases in Japan and Hawaii, all participating in the two-week multilateral exercise with Thailand and Singapore. With more than 60 planes in the air at any one time, it is a large job for these
  • Capt. Ketu Lincoln (L), and Senior Airman Joel Peace (R), 18th Aeromedical Dental Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan work to extract a tooth from 8 year old Apiwat Kitjumgnong during a medical-dental goodwill mission at the Thairat 72 school in Udon Thani Thailand Feb. 6. They were there as part of Exercise Cope Tiger 07. (Photo by Army Sergeant Catherine Talento)

    Air Force team performs goodwill mission in Thailand

    A U.S. Air Force medical and dental team and members from the Royal Thai Air Force participated in a humanitarian mission at Thairat 72 School in Udon Thani, Thailand Feb. 6. This was the second humanitarian civil action project and the first in northern Thailand conducted during exercise Cope Tiger 2007. According to Royal Thai Air Force Capt.

  • PACAF commander focuses on AF top 3 priorities

    Taking care of Airmen and their families, Global War on Terror, modernizing the aging fleet and the recent stand up of the 13th Air Force Detachment at Yokota Air Base, Japan, were topics of interest for the commander of Pacific Air Forces during a recent visit to Kadena, Feb. 1 - 3. "Taking care of Airmen and their families is a high priority,"
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Airman Ken Chung, 354th Communications Squadron, pitches an envelope into a squadron mail box on Feb. 06. The base Mail Room on a daily basis will pick up, deliver and process over 500 pieces of mail. The mail is then "pitched", sorted, and proper postage is applied to all official mail. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Jonathan Snyder)

    Mail Call

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska--Senior Airman Jonathan Cansdale, Airmen Committed to Excellence president, speaks to Airmen E-1s through E-4s about upcoming fundraisers, activities and volunteer work Feb. 1 at the dining facility. A.C.E. is a private, non-profit organization that voices the opinions of Airmen to the command chief to let him know what interests or concerns the lowest tier of Airmen have. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nora Anton)

    New organization designed for Airmen

    A new association now gives Airmen a chance to voice their opinions and be at the forefront of change: Airmen Committed to Excellence. A.C.E. is private, non-profit organization reserved for the Airman tier (E-1 through E-4) and is in many ways like the Top 3 and Eielson 56 organizations; it is the only private organization that gives Eielson's
  • ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- A C-130 flys a training mission which dropped pallets of simulated supplies at designated points along the Alaskan Interior. The C-130 belongs to the 517th Airlift Squadron. The 517th Airlift Squadron will replace its fleet of C-130s with the C-17 Globemaster III later this year. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Keith Brown)

    Training in the interior

  • American, Japanese airmen join forces in Keen Edge '07

    Approximately 300 Airmen and six Japan Air Self Defense Force liaison officers are participating in the bilateral command post Exercise Keen Edge '07 here. Officials from 13th Air Force are conducting their part of the annual weeklong joint bilateral exercise to increase combat readiness and interoperability with the JASDF. The U.S. Forces

  • PACAF commander focuses on AF top 3 priorities

    Taking care of Airmen and their families, Global War on Terror, modernizing the aging fleet and the recent stand up of the 13th Air Force Detachment at Yokota Air Base, Japan, were topics of interest for the commander of Pacific Air Forces during a recent visit to Kadena, Feb. 1 - 3. "Taking care of Airmen and their families is a high priority,"

  • Kadena Airmen ready for visiting Raptors

    As Kadena Air Base officials get ready to host 12 F-22 Raptors for the fighters' first overseas deployment, the base's most important focus right now is their readiness stance. "That readiness gives us piece and stability in the region," said Brig. Gen. Harold W. Moulton, 18th Wing commander. "And frankly because the front lines of the global war
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