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  • Osan's DRCC provides force and equipment sustainment

    Team Osan's Deployment Readiness Control Center is the hub for Airmen, equipment and cargo that deploy in and out of Osan Air Base during real world events and exercises. However, do you really know the extent of the DRCC's impact in exercise and contingency operations?According to Air Force

  • Keeping Eielson safe and secure

    Security forces Airmen perform a wide range of duties from law enforcement using non-lethal weapons to apprehend without the use of deadly force to advanced combat tactics for base security when under hostile conditions. Security Forces Airmen attend a technical school that lasts about 13 weeks --

  • 14th specialists specialize in aircraft maintenance

    Editors Note: Fourth in a series of six about the 14th Aircraft Maintenance Unit Most flights in the 14th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, to include production supervisors and expeditors, crew chiefs and weapons, have a singular job and mission. However, in the world of aircraft maintenance units the

  • U.S. Ambassador to Korea visits the Wolf Pack

    The U.S. Ambassador to Korea, Kathleen Stephens, visited the Wolf Pack Oct. 30 for the first time for an orientation flight in an F-16 Fighting Falcon, and to meet the Airmen here. The visit, which is the first since Ambassador Stephens took office in 2008, gave the Ambassador a chance to get to

  • Battlefield Airmen sharpen skills during Exercise Twilight

    Fifteen battlefield Airmen stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., conducted close air support training here with two U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets Oct. 22 to 24 as part of Exercise Twilight. The Airmen were from the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron, part of the 1st Air Support Operations Group also at

  • 36th MUNS Airman is the bomb

    Working in maintenance career fields can be very strenuous, with grueling 12-hour shifts and a lofty operations tempo often leaving Airmen too winded to pursue off-duty self-improvement activities. But Airman 1st Class Megan Minturn, 36th Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance and

  • Security Forces beef up patrols, keep base safe

    Lights flashing, sirens blaring. A police vehicle rushes by to respond to a vehicle accident, or maybe to just pull a vehicle over for not abiding traffic laws on Kadena. "We have boosted the patrols in housing and other key areas," said Capt. Clay Nichols, 18th Security Forces Squadron operations