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  • Osan completes first NEO exercise of the year

    Approximately 600 civilians and families here participated in this year's first Non-combatant Evacuation Operational Readiness exercise, or NEO March 7. The exercise, also part of the 51st Fighter Wing's Operational Readiness Inspection, is designed to practice the evacuation of non-combatant

  • 18th Comm Squadron earns multiple awards

    One of Kadena's squadrons recently scored a hat trick, earning three awards for excellence from Pacific Air Forces. The 18th Communications Squadron cinched the Maj. Gen. William R. Yost Award as the best large communications unit in Pacific Air Forces and had two individual winners in the

  • PACAF stresses fire prevention

    Pacific Air Forces has developed a fire prevention initiative to take place March 9 to April 17 in response to several recent fires at bases throughout the Pacific. "We have accepted risk in infrastructure for many years in this command and in the Air Force," said Gen. Howie Chandler, PACAF

  • Directing Cope Tiger flying shows multilateral partnership

    In many war movies, there is usually a scene in a crowded control room where dozens of uniformed men and women talk busily, consult computers and write things on big boards in the front of the room. The live fly cell at Cope Tiger 2009 shows that the truth behind the Hollywood image is both simpler

  • Air Force, Navy pilots train together over Okinawa

    Air Force and Navy pilots are sharpening their aerial combat skills in simulated dogfights and strike missions in the skies over Okinawa from March 1 - 21. Using the base as a power projection platform, F-15 Eagle pilots from the 67th Fighter Squadron and F-22 pilots from the deployed 27th

  • Maintenance officer takes title of 11th Air Forces best CGO

    A maintenance officer deployed here from Elmendorf Air Force Base was recently named the 11th Air Force's Company Grade Officer of the year. Capt. Mary Lent, 36th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Aircraft Maintenance Unit officer in-charge, is deployed here from Elmendorf Air Force Base with a

  • Multinational exercise Cope Tiger 2009 kicks off

    The first flights of Cope Tiger 2009 launched March 9, filling the skies above Thailand with fighter aircraft and signaling the 15th year of partnership between the United States, Thailand and Singapore militaries. Cope Tiger is an annual, multilateral aerial exercise which divides Thai, Singaporean