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  • A Persistent Presence

    Airman July/August Issue -- Pacific Air Forces: 100 million square miles of nonstop responsibility It would take a C-17 Globemaster III more than 60 hours of nonstop flying to skirt the edges of Pacific Air Forces' area of responsibility. It's an area that includes 16 time zones and 43 countries in

  • 613th AOC 'connects' RIMPAC 2008

    For the first time ever, Hickam's 613th Air and Space Operations Center is serving as the central hub for data and voice communications in a Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. Exercise RIMPAC 2008, the 21st in a series of significant international military exercises scheduled biennially by U.S.

  • Global health security an emerging issue

    Five years ago when a mysterious and fatal respiratory illness spread throughout Asia, an increasingly worried public feared going outside. Economies suffered in the wake of decreased tourism and loss of consumer confidence. Scientists worldwide worked around the clock to discover the cause of the

  • Yokota transfers to new hazardous material tracking system

    Yokota will be the second base in Pacific Air Forces to transition to a new hazardous material tracking system when the Enterprise Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Management Information System becomes fully operational at the end of July. The new system, called EESOH-MIS, replaces the

  • Tuskegee Airman dies

    Retired Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, 87, one of the famed "Tuskegee Airmen" who broke the military's color barrier by becoming a World War II fighter pilot, died June 24 in Atlanta. Colonel Dryden was born Sept. 16, 1920, in New York City to Jamaican parents. He graduated from Peter Stuyvesant High

  • Air Force medics join USNS Mercy mission

    Twenty eight Air Force medical personnel from across the Pacific region are currently spending some time on the open sea as they participate in Pacific Partnership 2008. Alongside other public health/preventive medicine professionals from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Public Health Service,