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  • Misawa spouse earns PACAF award

    One of Misawa's own was recently named the PACAF Joan Orr Spouse of the Year for 2007. During the Annual Awards ceremony here Angela Barber received the Joan Orr Award for Misawa and was notified that she was also the 5th Air Force winner. Weeks later, she was surprised at work with the news that

  • 611th CES exercises with environmental partners

    Even though the most infamous hazardous-material spills have occurred on seas, members of the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron prepare for these events on land at frozen Six-Mile Lake. The 611th CES, together with the U.S. Coast Guard from Sector Anchorage, the Alaska Chadux Corporation from Anchorage

  • Icemen train for mass deployment

    Icemen geared up for a simulated contingency during an operational readiness exercise here March 6 to 9. A base-wide recall and 24-hour operations set the tone for the exercise scenario - mass deployment to a simulated hot spot in the Pacific theater. Eielson Airmen swiftly gathered all mission

  • Practice makes perfect for LRS sweep teams

    Conducting sweeps to locate unexploded ordnance or suspicious packages is an important action that many Airmen here are doing during this week's Pacific Air Forces Operational Readiness Inspection. One of these sweep teams from the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron made its usual rounds around their

  • Services stands up SPEK to feed Airmen

    From pallet to palette is the philosophy behind an 18th Services Squadron capability tested during this week's Pacific Air Forces Operational Readiness Inspection here. Wherever Airmen deploy, the Single Pallet Expeditionary Kitchen or SPEK, can go with them to provide support. "The SPEK is unique

  • 374th FSS to be Yokota's largest organization

    The 374th Mission Support Squadron and 374th Services Division will begin the process of merging together on April 21 to become the 374th Force Support Squadron, the largest unit at Yokota AB. The new squadrons will help streamline processes, maximize customer service and cut costs associated with

  • Family members hold down the home front during ORI

    Family members played a crucial part as Team Kadena showed their capabilities during this week's Pacific Air Forces Operational Readiness Inspection. Military members here at Kadena faced longer hours and higher stress as part of the inspection, and dependants had to help out in many cases to allow