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  • Cadre at Pacific Lifeline teach HUMRO concept

    The Republic of Moku is a fictitious Pacific island chain, but during exercise Pacific Lifeline it is home to real-world training as more than 90 medical Airmen assigned to Pacific Air Forces practice how to deploy and provide critical services following a natural disaster.Assisting them is a

  • Eating well in tent city

    Airmen and Soldiers living in tent city are eating well thanks to active-duty and Air National Guard Services specialists from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, and Kadena Air Base, Japan. Deployed to the Kona International Airport, the Services team set up a single pallet expeditionary kitchen to feed

  • PACAF Airmen combat-train with Thailand, Singapore

    Aircraft from Pacific Air Forces began flying combat sorties here Feb. 1 alongside its ally nations Thailand and Singapore, in support of Exercise Cope Tiger 2008.The PACAF aircraft and those from the Royal Thai Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Air Force are participating in the four-day

  • Command cell ensures communication flow

    Six Reservists from the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron ensured the timely set up of command and control cell for exercise Pacific Lifeline in Hawaii Jan. 26 to Feb. 9. The Reservists make up the Aeromedical Command Cell which provides command and control for aeromedical forces to include

  • New PACAF commander visits Kadena

    The new Pacific Air Forces commander discussed the delicate balance between combat readiness and taking care of the Airmen, as well as the budget and the importance of relations with Japan during a visit to Kadena Jan 25. Gen. Carrol "Howie" Chandler, who took command of PACAF in November, spent a

  • Airmen build mobile medical facilty

    If you were told the Air Force was going to build a fully functional hospital in a barren field in just 11 hours would you believe it? It happened at the Kona International Airport Jan. 29 as more than 90 Airmen, primarily from the 3rd Medical Group, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, set up an

  • Arctic maintainers keep Aggressors flying in sub-zero temperatures

    The current temperature has been a bitter fluctuation between 0 and -30 degrees since the arrival of Eielson's newest F-16 Aggressor aircraft over the past week, but it's not stopping Iceman aircraft maintainers of the 354th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, who are busy as ever doing routine

  • PACAF team donates to Thai school

    Pacific Air Forces, along with the Royal Thai Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Air Force, donated school supplies and equipment to a local school in a rural village outside of Korat, Thailand Jan. 30.Historically a part of the humanitarian portion of Exercise Cope Tiger, the donation to the