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  • Base, government officials conduct emergency management exercise

    More than 100 representatives from Yokota Air Base, the North Kanto Defense Bureau and the city governments of Tokyo and Fussa, conducted their first-ever table-top exercise June 16 to plan a coordinated response to a major aircraft accident in the local area. The exercise, based on a simulated U.S.

  • Laos, Thailand, U.S. officials host disease surveillance workshop

    In a cooperative effort to improve their ability to detect, respond to, and contain infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific region, medical experts from Laos, Thailand and the United States participated in a four-day disease surveillance workshop in Laos June 6-9. The conference was hosted by the

  • Pacific aerial porters prepare at Hickam for AMC Rodeo

    Working out twice a day and running in a gas mask may sound like part of the training only a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Extraction team or pararescue crew would do, but eight air transportation specialists from around the Pacific are doing it together at Hickam AFB. Not because their everyday

  • Team Hickam Air Mobility Rodeo Team makes their debut, readies for action

    Team Hickam rolled out its 2009 Air Mobility Rodeo Team in style last Friday with a rousing introduction during the Monthly Recognition Ceremony. Twenty-three total force team members from Hickam's Active Duty and Air National Guard will begin the challenging preparation for the international

  • 644th CBCS Airmen support warfighters, experience culture in Suwon

    After months of preparation and exercises, the 644th Combat Communications Squadron deployed more than 20 Airmen to Suwon Air Base, Korea, in early March marking the first time the unit had deployed a communications activation package since it was reactivated here January 2008.Three months later,

  • Maintainers keep F-22s ready in Guam

    To support F-22s Raptors deployed here as part of U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Security Packages, a team of maintenance personnel are working behind the scenes to ensure that each flying mission is a success. The team of 150 Airmen from the 525th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit at

  • South Korean President Visits Osan

    South Korean President Lee, Myung-Bak and members of his cabinet visited with Korean Military and U.S. military members, during a visit here June 7. Accompanying President Lee during his visit was the Korean Minister of National Defense, the Korean chief of the joint chiefs of staff, the Korean

  • HurEx preps base, island for Cat 4 storm

    Team Hickam tested its readiness in a Hurricane Exercise on base and with state and federal agencies downtown at the Hawaii Convention Center June 2 through 4. The HurEx validated an emergency plan which was made by state officials over the last two years, playing out a scenario in which a Category