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  • PACAF Commander visits Airmen at 'top of the world'

    Gen. Gary North, Pacific Air Forces commander, and his wife Shelley stopped here recently to visit Airmen, their families and community leaders who support the Iceman Team. General North assumed command of Pacific Air Forces in August, which includes bases in Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Guam and South

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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