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  • 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

  • Hickam implements VPP

    In an effort to ensure base employees evaluate their practices and increase workplace safety, Hickam leadership implemented the Occupational Safety and Health Administration sponsored Voluntary Protection Program whose goal is to preserve combat power by decreasing workplace injuries or illnesses,

  • HAWC oversees centralized PT testing

    The Air Force is taking a new approach to physical training. All PT testing will be centralized through some form as stated in a recent newsletter from Gen. Howie Chandler, Pacific Air Forces commander. A December 2008 Air Force audit, which was held at 13 Air Force Bases with Elmendorf being one,

  • Evacuation exercise kicks off ORI

    Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing entered the final stretch toward April's Operational Readiness Inspection when the Non-combatant Evacuation Operation inspection kicked off, March 6. Twenty United States citizens and five third country nationals simulated evacuating during the two day inspection.

  • Deputy Chief of Chaplains visits Kadena

    During a visit to the Air Force's largest combat wing, the Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains took time to praise Airmen for their service and remind them of their noble calling. Chaplain (Brig. Gen.) David Cyr shared food and conversation with the Shoguns during this year's National Prayer