Kadena IPE team takes initiative, finishes on top

Conventional wisdom suggests that the best ideas often come from the bottom - from those people closest to a problem. This notion was recently proved by members of the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron's Individual Protective Equipment Management Team, the only all-enlisted team to receive the 2009

Air Attaché group tours Hickam, Hawaii

Hoggin' up the runway

Bright idea

Yokota Airmen depart for Cope India

Seventy Airmen and two of three C-130H Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron departed here Oct. 14 to take part in Cope India 10, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored bilateral flying training exercise conducted with the Indian Air Force. The airlift exercise will focus on the humanitarian

Navy JTACs: keeping RF-A on target

An F-16 Fighting Falcon drops a 550-pound concrete-filled bomb on to a simulated target as three men watch from a hillside a little more than a mile away. The men are Navy joint terminal attack controllers whose job is to operate from a forward position -- directing the action of combat aircraft

PACAF addresses H1N1 as cold, flu season begins

The cold and flu season has begun, and the risk of illness also includes the H1N1 influenza virus. Military Treatment Facilities at Pacific Air Forces installations are currently working to ensure that information and vaccinations are available to both military members and their dependents. "We are

U.S. military, international relief charity provides aid to Indonesia

Japan Air Self-Defense Force joins RED FLAG-Alaska training

The first couple F-15 Eagles, from Japan Air Self-Defense Force, gracefully climbed into the sky. The last fighter rose in the same manner until, in a sudden surprising movement, the pilot banked the plane to the right before chasing the other fighters into the sky. JASDF airmen are participating in

U.S. combat controllers provide critical communications link in Indonesia