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  • PACAF Airmen train for contingency operations during Silver Flag

    Airmen from all over PACAF trained to establish and sustain a forward operating base during Silver Flag 09-09 here Nov. 16 - 22. "The Airmen are tasked with many different scenarios that require them to utilize the training they have received during the week based on their own Air Force Specialty

  • Kadena volunteers spread holiday cheer to single servicemembers

    KADENA AIR BASE, Japan - Bringing a taste of home to almost 2,000 single servicemembers, 500 volunteers from various organizations here recently baked more than 24,000 cookies for Operation Hometown Kadena Cookie Drop. This is the second year a cookie drive has been organized for single E-4's and

  • Eielson Airmen build ice bridge to bombing range

    The temperature was ten below zero and the weather was calm the morning of Nov. 24: perfect conditions to build a bridge of ice from Fairbanks to the Blair Lakes bombing range in the Pacific Alaska Range Complex. A unique feat that will allow maintenance that can't be done without the bridge because

  • PACAF key to stability in diverse theater, general says

    The Pacific theater is large, diverse and complicated, but the Airmen of Pacific Air Forces are up to the challenge, according to a senior PACAF leader speaking in Los Angeles Nov. 20. Lt. Gen. Chip Utterback, 13th Air Force commander, kicked off the Air Force Association Global Warfare Symposium

  • Air Force band Sonora fosters relationships in Kyrgyzstan

    The Air Forces Central band "Sonora" played to all audience spectrums as they performed 11 concerts in their eight-day visit here, Nov. 12-20. The 10-person band's visit to Manas included multiple performances at a wide variety of venues in the local Kyrgyz communities. The band is known as Sonora

  • Seventh Air Force welcomes new commander

    Seventh Air Force personnel welcomed their 31st commander during a change-of-command ceremony here Nov. 24, when Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Remington assumed command from Lt. Gen. Stephen G. Wood. The ceremony was presided over by Gen. Walter Sharp, U.S. Forces Korea commander, and Gen. Carrol H. (Howie)

  • Deployed Airmen support bilateral exercise

    Airmen from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron here recently participated in the AnnualEx 20G, a bilateral exercise between U.S. and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces that took place from Nov. 13 to 19 over the Pacific Ocean. The exercise, conducted yearly, is designed for two primary

  • 644th CBCS conducts Dragon Thunder exercise

    Under a sea of camouflage netting in tents filled with towers of electronic equipment, Airmen from the 644th Combat Communications Squadron sharpened their expeditionary skills during "Dragon Thunder," a field training exercise set in the fictional location, "Guamania," Nov. 17-21 here. The 644th

  • COMPACAF shares holiday message with Airmen

    As the holiday season brings 2008 to a close, I offer my sincere thanks to our entire Pacific Air Forces team--military, civilians and family members--who make this command a cornerstone of our nation's security in the Pacific. It's been a challenging year in PACAF and for our Air Force as we've

  • Life-saving Airman, patient meet for first time

    A local Korean woman and the Wolf Pack Airman whose blood donation saved her life, met for the first time when she visited Kunsan Air Base Nov. 21. Airman Tamarias Pope, 8th Security Forces Squadron, met up with 22-year-old You Jin Pak, allowing the 19-year-old Airman to put a face to the person his