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  • 51st SVS prepares for Hennessy

    The 51st Services Squadron's Food Service Flight will put their best foot forward when the 2008 Air Force Hennessy Evaluation Team visits Feb. 19 through 22 for the annual Air Force-level competition. The John L. Hennessy Award is presented to the Air Force installation with the best food service

  • Base exercises NEO/Safe Haven operations

    Misawa personnel were given the opportunity to practice noncombatant evacuation operations here during an exercise Feb. 12-14. As part of the exercise, more than 300 noncombatants were evacuated from Base X to Misawa Air Base, where they received some much needed aid before repatriation to the

  • Defenders perform unique OIF mission

    While the spiraled rows of concertina wire, countless watch towers, and endless miles of fencing resemble that of detention facilities throughout the world, for the more than 600 Airmen deployed to the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq, the mission is unlike anything they've ever done.

  • Elmendorf Hospital named Best in the Air Force.

    It only took 100 words to convince the Air Force Surgeon General of what Elmendorf officials already knew about the 3rd Medical Group: that the Elmendorf Hospital is the best in the Air Force. At the Department of Defense Military Health Systems annual conference last month, the Air Force announced

  • Team Kadena kicks off last exercise before ORI

    A simulated Kadena-based U.S Navy P-3 Orion aircraft crash kicked off Exercise Beverly High 08-4, Feb. 10. The "crash," which happened on base at 1 p.m. today, had Kadena firefighters responding quickly. "We arrived on scene and initiated incident command [center], then started fighting the fire,"