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  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Staff Sgt. Patrick Heseltine, PACAF Alaska Brass Quintet member, plays a Christmas carol from his french horn at the 355th Fighter Squadron Dec. 6. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Anthony Nelson.)

    Spreading holiday cheer

  • Maj. Jerry Malloy shows 5-year-old Natsuki Takeda the cockpit of a KC-135 Stratotanker Dec. 5 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Andersen AFB members teamed up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Guam to grant Natsuki's wish of seeing a military aircraft. Major Maloy is a a KC-135 instructor pilot with the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Ann Bennett)

    Team Andersen assists the Guam Make-A-Wish Foundation

    The overcast rainy afternoon did not dampen the spirits of Team Andersen as they rallied together to make a little boy's wish come true Dec. 5. Members of the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, 734th Air Mobility Squadron, 36th Expeditionary Operations Group, 36th Wing Public Affairs Office, 36th Operations Support Squadron, 36th Civil

  • Survivor remembers attack on Oahu

    Retired Chief Master Sgt. Ralph Barnett returned to Hickam for the 65th Anniversary of the attack on Oahu and to show his family where he was on that fateful Sunday morning. At the time of the attack he was a 24 year old assistant armament chief Buck Sgt. with the 23rd Bombardment Squadron stationed on Hickam Field. In the early morning hours of

  • Honolulu selected to host Air Force Week in 2007

    In an announcement made Dec 5., Honolulu has been selected as one of six cities nation-wide and the only city outside the continental United States to host Air Force Week in 2007. Air Force Week Honolulu will be held seaside in Waikiki, Sept. 12 -15, 2007. Highlighting the week-long event will be a performance by the Air Force's premier aerial

  • Total Force support brings injured Sailors home

    When the call came in that six Sailors were critically injured when a steam line ruptured on board the USS Frank Cable (AS 40), a submarine tender based on Guam, the Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center (TPMRC) and the Aeromedical Evacuation Control Team (AECT) based here sprang into action. The first step was to get the Critical Care

  • Makahiki marks beginning of Hawaiian New Year

    As they have for nearly 2,000 years, they came from the water. For Hawaiians, the arrival of the boats marks the beginning of Makahiki, the Hawaiian New Year. For members of the Hickam Air Force Base community like Staff Sgt. Alexander Sotak, the Makahiki was an opportunity to experience a seldom-seen side of Hawaiian culture. "It was very
  • Medical personnel attend to an injured sailor aboard a Hawaii based C-17 Globemaster III at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Six sailors recieved severe burns when a steam line ruptured in the engineering room of the USS Frank Cable in Guam. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sergeant Roderick Reyes)

    Air Force transporting injured Sailors

    The Air Force is currently responding to transport injured Sailors from Guam back to the United States to receive medical attention. Eight sailors were injured, six critically, as a result of an accident aboard a U.S. Navy submarine tender. The Guam Pacific Daily News reports the sailors were conducting routine maintenance in an engineering space

  • JPAC TEAMS RETURN FROM LAOS AND CAMBODIA

    Five Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery teams and one investigation team returned to Hawaii last week after conducting missions in Laos and Cambodia. Three recovery teams excavated sites in Savannakhet Province, Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic, connected to three cases involving missing Americans from the Vietnam War. The teams obtained

  • Andersen AFB firemen respond to base housing fire

    The 36th Civil Engineer Squadron's fire emergency service responded to a house fire in base housing Wednesday which resulted in serious property damage. No one was home at the time of the fire and no one was injured in the blaze. The fire was initially reported by a neighbor at 3:11 p.m. "On behalf of Team Anderson, I'd like to express sympathy for
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Children from the Top of the World Toy Summit raise there hands in an oath to Santa that they will be "nice" this year. More than 30 military children served as toy testers and "ambassadors of fun" during the morning festivities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justin Weaver).

    Toy experts report to Santa

    Santa's top "advisors" convened at the Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska for the first-ever "Top of the World Toy Summit" Nov. 29. While none of Santa's advisors hold a college degree, or have ever worked at a major toy company, they did have one thing in common - they were all toy experts. These toy experts were 5 to 10-year-old military
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