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  • Airman 1st Class Ramsey Gardner, Eielson AFB Honor Guard member, plays Taps in recognition of American prisoners of war and those missing in action during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at Heritage Park here Friday. The 354th Fighter Wing assembled in formation at the park to pay homage to lost comrades and participate in a wing retreat ceremony. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman Jonathan Snyder)

    You are not forgotten

    Cool September breezes and overcast skies set the somber tone for Friday afternoon, as the Iceman Team gathered to honor those servicemembers lost but not forgotten during National POW/MIA Recognition Day at Heritage Park here. The 354th Fighter Wing assembled at the site for a recognition and retreat ceremony; the weather a subtle and fitting

  • Wake Island assessment nears completion

    The damage assessment team from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, has moved into its second phase of operations here. After three days of comprehensive walk-through inspections on more than 135 facilities, the team has gathered enough data to begin putting together estimates. When Super Typhoon Ioke swept over the atoll Aug 31, it destroyed many of
  • Maj. Gen Chip Utterback Pacific Air Forces deputy commander and Airman Matthew Saum cut an Air Force birthday cake in the Courtyard of Heroes on Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii Sept. 18. Airman Saum is the lowest ranking Airman in the PACAF headquarters and Gen. Utterback was most senior at the event. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

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  • F-15 Eagles get a last-minute check before taking off from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, Sept. 8 during Exercise Sentry Aloha. The F-15s are from the Hawaii Air National Guard's 199th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

    Eagles, Falcons take to Hawaii skies

    Eagles and Falcons, the U.S. Air Force's premier "birds of prey," faced off in a two week air to air exercise called "Sentry Aloha" over the skies of Hawaii. F-15 Eagles from the Hawaii Air National Guard's 199th Fighter Squadron and F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing participated in the exercise that
  • Airman First Class Alex Jaime from the 15th Civil Engineering Squadron is a member of the assessment team sent to Wake Island to repair the damage casued by super Typhoon Ioke.

    Young Airman excels, learns at Wake Island

    Super Typhoon Ioke left Wake Island in shambles. The category 5 storm raged through the atoll on Aug 31, demolishing buildings and tossing around anything that wasn't bolted down--and many things that were. Assessing the damage includes some repair work, and it's a mission that calls for the most experienced of civil engineers. But don't tell that

  • 90th FS returns home from Guam AEF tasking

    When almost 300 people returned with the 90th Fighter Squadron from Andersen Air Force Base recently, some didn't understand why an Aerospace Expeditionary Force went to Guam instead of Southwest Asia. In these days of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, it can be difficult for some to get the connection between "Guam" and "deployment."

  • Tech to Master in one STEP

    Tech. Sgt. Ruben M. Vazquez, an independent duty medical technician from the 36th Medical Operations Squadron received another shock to his Air Force career Sunday when Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Paul V. Hester and his wife Lynda surprised him and his wife, Jennifer with an instant promotion to master sergeant. The promotion, awarded under

  • KC-135 turns 50; withstands test of time

    The farthest north Tanker Wing celebrated the 50th birthday of the KC-135 Stratotanker in a Sept. 9 ceremony at the 168th Air Refueling Wing's maintenance hangar. The celebration honored the Stratotanker as a premier refueling aircraft in the Air Force's, Navy's and Marine Corps' heritages; its original mission was to refuel long-range bombers. The
  • Debris and wreckage line the streets of the "downtown" area of Wake Island on Sept 14, 2006. Super Typhoon Ioke swept through on Aug 31 with wind speeds of 155 mph and gusts at 190 mph. A team of civil engineers and COMM experts deployed to the atoll from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, to estimate the extent of the damage left by the category 5 storm. (U.S. Air Force photo / Tech. Sgt. Chris Vadnais)

    Airmen add up damage at Wake Island

    Airmen from the 15th Civil Engineering Squadron and the 15th Communications Squadron are working around the clock to provide accurate estimates of the storm damage here. Super Typhoon Ioke brought 155 mph winds and 190 mph gusts to the small atoll on Aug 31, just days after the 188 residents had been evacuated on two of Hickam's C-17 Globemaster
  • Members from the 15th Civil Engineering Squadron load pallets of equipment on a C-17 Globemaster III at Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii Sept. 12, 2006. The C-17 is taking a 53-person team comprised of CE, Defense Department employees and contractors to assess damage left by Super Typhoon Ioke after it struck Wake Island Aug. 31. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

    C-17 Returns to Wake Island

    Three weeks after evacuating 188 people out harms way from a category 5 typhoon Trek 15, a C-17 Globemaster III from the 535th Airlift Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii is returning and bringing back some of its residence and a team to asses the damage. "I flew the mission that brought the people out three weeks ago. When we picked the people
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