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  • Maintainer volunteers time at deployed hospital

    For deployed Airmen, there are a number of activities to fill any free time they may have. Some sign up for online classes, some hit the gym, and others relax by playing poker or watching movies. One Misawa maintainer decided he wanted to do something more meaningful with his free time and get more

  • PACAF warriors provide medical, dental care to hundreds in Thailand

    Members from medical groups all over the Pacific Air Forces teamed up with Thai and Singaporean medical teams to provide much needed health care to the underprivileged in Thailand. Dental and optometry teams dedicated their time and skills setting up a make-shift clinic at the Barr Lum Nong Kaew, a

  • Hickam Veteran reaches for the past, bids farewell to friends

    He ran a trembling hand over the words, "PFC Jack W. Fox." Then stood up, stepped back and rendered a long, slow salute. "He was a great soldier," said Henry Heim, Hickam Airfield attack survivor, as he glanced at the memorial with tears in his eyes. "I knew the other guys, every one of them, but he

  • Key Resolve optimizes communication

    The key to success in Key Resolve/Foal Eagle, a peninsula-wide exercise, is communications. Despite some language barriers, the key players conduct the air and space portion of KR/FE smoothly from the Hardened Tactical Air Command Center here. "We may have all the technology in the world, but

  • Air Force wows crowds at airshow down under

    About 100 Airmen from across the Air Force recently flew 'down under' to represent the U.S. military and demonstrate aircraft capabilities at the 2009 Australian International Airshow March 13-15. Airmen from Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Force Reserve Command and Pacific Air Forces

  • Elmendorf officials mourn loss of Airman

    Elmendorf Air Force Base officials will hold a memorial service this week to honor an NCO killed at 12:30 a.m. March 15 supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Eastern Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Timothy Bowles, 24, was killed when his vehicle was destroyed by an improvised explosive device while on a

  • From sub-arctic to center stage

    An Eielson Iceman has turned in his snowshoes and has headed for the spotlight. Staff Sgt. James Warren, a chaplain's assistant here was selected and is training to take his place in Tops in Blue. His new duty will take him away from the base chapel and put him on stage. Base chaplain, Lt.

  • Japan, U.S. forces come together to 'Guard and Protect'

    U.S. and Japanese forces practiced defending the base during a Guard and Protect Exercise here March 11-13. This year, the annual exercise was expanded to last for 24 hours and included a fully integrated Base Defense Operations Center. A company-sized group of Soldiers from the Japan Ground Self

  • Navy-led Arctic Care returns to Western Alaska

    Personnel here were part of a team that participated in a joint Air Force, Army and Navy medical and dental exercise in 11 of Western Alaska's most remote villages March 6 through 15.The exercise purpose was to bring no-cost health care and veterinary support to underserved populations in the

  • Airmen talk to Australian students

    U.S. military members supporting the 2009 Australian International Airshow recently lit up young faces during visits to an elementary school near in the nearby town of Lara March 11 and 12. A mix of pilots, flight engineers and security forces, totaling nine, spoke to about 500 excited students over