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  • Hickam’s Rodeo 2009 team returns

    Forty total-force team members from Hickam's active-duty and Air National Guard units, including aerial porters from all around the Pacific, returned from the Air Mobility Rodeo 2009 July 25. Flight crew members, maintainers, security forces, and joint airdrop inspection specialists here competed

  • Bombers take to skies down under

    The 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron here completed 10 sorties flying more than 110 hours while participating in Talisman Saber 2009, a joint and coalition exercise, July 15-24. The bilateral command post and field training exercise was designed to increase interoperability between U.S. and

  • PACAF commander visits Yokota

    Making good strides and moving "the ball down the field" is how the current commander of Pacific Air Forces describes the command's condition as he prepares to become the 35th vice chief of staff of the Air Force. During a visit here June 30 - July 2, Gen. Howie Chandler said he's been pleased with

  • COMPACAF makes final visit to Osan

    The Pacific Air Forces Commander, Gen. Howie Chandler, made a visit to Osan June 27-28. As he prepares to leave PACAF for his next assignment, he took a moment to reflect on the base's past and outlined his vision for the future. General Chandler said since his first visit to Osan was in the 1980's

  • Andersen adds revamped instrument landing systems

    After nearly three years of planning and more than a year and a half of construction, more than 15 Airmen from the 36th Communications Squadron recently completed a $6.1 million project to install four state-of-the-art Instrument Landing Systems on the airfield here. The project was completed with

  • Down under, across sky with Talisman Saber

    Throughout the month of July, thousands of U.S. troops were deployed - not just to Iraq or Afghanistan, but to Guam, Hawaii and Australia as part of Exercise Talisman Saber 2009. The biannual, joint and coalition exercise saw U.S. and Australian forces working together to achieve a series of common