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  • PACAF emphasizes anthrax vaccination before deployments

    Officials are emphasizing that pre-deployment notification of Airmen designated to deploy to specific high-threat areas - primarily the Central Command area of responsibility or the Korean peninsula - is sufficient to begin anthrax vaccinations. Air Force guidance states that all categories of personnel on orders may begin immunizations up to 60

  • Active, Reserve Airmen join forces to fight fires

    A total force team of firefighters from Yokota Air Base and the 440th Airlift Wing, Wisconsin's only Air Force Reserve unit, combined skills to extinguish flames during a live-fire exercise here the last week of April. The joint training offered an experience Yokota AB firefighters and the reservists could both learn from, most of all teaming up

  • Weather Airman Works Late to Keep Others Safe

    The early evening hours here are like most Hawaiian nights, warm and breezy but Tech Sergeant Rosswald Guevarra isn't interested in the weather outside. High up in the command center of the 17th Operational Weather Squadron Sergeant Guevarra is staring intently into a computer monitor tracking the weather conditions halfway around the world at
  • 5th Recon Squadron

    'Blackcats' to celebrate 90 years of service

    The 5th Reconnaissance Squadron celebrates its 90th anniversary with a dining-in at the Blackcat Compound on Friday at 6 p.m. Col. Stephen P. Sheehy, 9th Maintenance Group commander, is attending the dinner as the special guest speaker. Other special guests include Chief Master Sgt. Michael Baca, 9th Operations Group superintendent, and Master Sgt.
  • Capt. Christopher and wife Maj. Kimberly Tooman, both assigned to the 35th Fighter Wing Misawa Air Base, Japan take a moment to pose for a picture after the graduation ceremony following the Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Officer School. The AMMOS, located at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., is a 14 week course offered to maintenance officers.

    Couple of AMMOS grads right here

    Few organizations across the Air Force have people who have graduated from a specialized school like the Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Officer School, and with only three classes per year, it's easy to see how this advanced training is a rare honor. But, as rare as it may be for a base to have two graduates from this advanced school, a couple

  • Maintenance professionals honored for 2006

    A vocal crowd of Airmen from across the maintenance group and other units across the base honored the 2006 Maintenance Professionals of the Year at a banquet April 27 in Hangar 3 here. More than 400 Airmen chanting squadron slogans at the tops of their lungs seen the "best of the best" recognized for the work accomplished day in and day out keeping
  • 060325-F-1467B-003 MISAWA AIR BASE, JAPAN - The 060325 -- MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Honorable Michael W. Wynne, Secretary of the Air Force (left) speaks with Misawa City Mayor Shigeyoshi Suzuki (right) during his visit to Misawa Air Base, Japan on March 25, 2005. Secretary Wynne spoke on issues involving joint efforts with the Japanese and American Air Forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Andy Bellamy)

    Misawa City Mayor and champion for U.S.-Japan relations dies at age 66

    A longtime friend and supporter of American servicemembers, their families and the Air Force mission in Northern Japan has passed away Tuesday from pneumonia at the age of 66. Mayor Shigeyoshi Suzuki served as the Mayor of Misawa City, representing a city of 40,000, for more than two decades and was in his sixth term upon his death. Throughout his
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Senior Airman Joe Hensley, 354th Civil Engineer Squadron, uses a Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welder fusing two aluminum metals together on May 01. Airman Hensley is working on the stairs section of a halfpipe for the youth center in efforts to improve quality of life on base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan Snyder)

    354th CES in Action

  • Japanese pilots get taste of F-22As during Kadena training

    U.S. and Japanese jet fighter pilots got a chance to play "good jock, bad jock" in the skies near Okinawa. For the first time ever, fighter jocks with Japan's Air Self-Defense Force got to practice air-to-to-air combat last week with American counterparts who were flying stealthy new F-22A Raptors. In the first mission Friday, the U.S. Air Force
  • Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating speaks at the Hawaii Military Appreciation Month kickoff at the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island May 2 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Admiral Keating is the commander of U.S. Pacific Command. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Hawaii kicks off Military Appreciation Month

    "Ohana" or family is a concept that runs deep in Hawaii. Ohana includes not only one's personal family, but also their community. In Hawaii, ohana extends to the military. For the 22nd year in a row, Hawaii's business and government leaders came together to thank U.S. servicemembers during the kickoff celebration for Hawaii's Military Appreciation
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