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  • Marines, Airmen, fuel up exercise Northern Edge

    Pacific Command's Exercise Northern Edge 2009 is allowing more than 200 aircraft the opportunity to train in nearly 120,000 square miles of airspace above interior Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska June 15-26. With the numerous aircraft in the air and massive amounts of mileage to cover during the

  • New Zealand proves fitting host for multilateral talks

    "With your basket, and with my basket, together we will feed everyone." This traditional New Zealand saying, translated into English from the Maori language, was referenced by Air Commodore Gavin Howse during the opening seminar of the Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium and Senior Enlisted Leadership

  • Asia-Pacific nations meet to discuss relief operations

    Representatives from nations throughout the Asia-Pacific region are meeting here to discuss multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations June 23-27. The talks are part of the 2009 Pacific Rim Airpower Symposium, co-hosted this year by the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the

  • AMC crew rounded up and ready to go

    The Rodeo team here has been rounded up, and they are ready to go. About 35 Arctic Warriors will compete in the Air Mobility Command Rodeo at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 18 to 25. Since 1962 the AMC Rodeo has been held to help improve the skills of air mobility professionals. The competition

  • Trouble on the ground mandates safety program

    An increase in runway incursions mandates all airfield drivers here to receive a briefing in preventing further flightline mishaps by September. "It's been noted that in 2008 there has been an increase of 49 percent in runway incursion rates caused by vehicles or pedestrians," said Tech. Sgt. Don

  • 'Vampire Bats' take to skies of Alaska

    Northern Edge 2009 is a joint training exercise connecting approximately 9,000 servicemembers from throughout the country and throughout the world, and involving more than 200 aircraft. Some of those service members and aircraft came from as far away as Kadena Air Force Base, Japan. Pilots and

  • Northern Warfare Training Center helps prepare SEALs

    A West Coast-based SEAL team continued their training during Northern Edge 2009 with the help from the Northern Warfare Training Center here June 17. The SEAL team learned and practiced several river crossing techniques to prepare them for overseas contingency operations. "The training that we are

  • Air Force officer honored by AAPA

    When Capt. Timothy Harrelson deployed with a provincial reconstruction team to Afghanistan for a year, he knew his work as the team's physician assistant would have an effect on the local Afghans and those he served with. He didn't realize the impact it would have on his career. Seven months, one