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  • Nations work together to bridge community, provide clean water

    Civilians and military personnel from four countries are teaming up to improve the infrastructure and water supply here May 4-8 as part of the 2009 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum Voluntary Demonstration of Response on Disaster Relief. ARF-VDR is an activity designed to prepare

  • Base defense not just security forces' job

    (Editor's note: This is the first part in a three part series highlighting the 8th Fighter Wing mission, and what it taks of the men and women of the Wolf Pakc to successfully complete that mission.)Defend the base ... accept follow-on forces ... take the fight north! These three simple phrases that

  • Explosive ordnance disposal chosen Air Force Team of Year

    The Explosive Ordnance Disposal career field was named Air Force Team of the year for 2009 for placing their lives on the line each day to protect others. The honor was bestowed on them by the Air Force Association, on recommendation from the Air Force's most senior enlisted leaders. Airmen from the

  • Idea earns maintainer big money

    A simple suggestion earned one Misawa maintainer $10,000 and saved the Air Force thousands more. Staff Sgt. Jerome Latham, an engine craftsman with the 35th Maintenance Squadron, suggested a technical order change to the Innovative Development through Employee Awareness program. His idea resulted in

  • 434th ARW deployment comes to close

    More than 110 Airmen and four KC-135 Stratotankers from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind., completed a four-month deployment to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, as the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, in support of Pacific Refueling Operations, May 1. KC-135s have been routinely deployed here