Yokota Air Base News

Soldiers receive a safety brief from Staff Sgt. Lacarvia Heart Sept. 9, 2009, before off-loading three new AH-64D Apaches from a C-17 Globemaster III, at Osan Air Base, Korea.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presents the Capt. Lance P Sijan Air Force Leadership Award to Maj.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan a ' No doubt there is a family housing surplus on base. Towering apartment buildings sit practically empty and a $232 million basewide housing renovation project is being scaled back due to a declining population in recent years as military units have been relocated.

The gray bird did a wing wave on its final pass before flying off into the mist.

The press release starts like this: "A tough-as-nails Army Airborne Ranger, an articulate and persuasive Air Force Public Affairs Officer or a technically trained naval nuclear reactor operator.

Col. Raymond LaMarche, exercise director for Cope India, provides comments during a Cope India press conference where nearly 85 international media representatives attended.

Airmen providing humanitarian assistance following recent natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region have finished their missions and are returning home, Pacific Air Forces announced Monday.

The missions began Sept. 30 when Hawaii Air National Guard crews flew two C-17 Globemaster IIIs loaded with relief supplies and a multi-agency contingency to American Samoa after the island was struck by an earthquake one day prior.

Capt. Steven Ellis collects medical history information from a patient with the help of Khairul, a local interpreter, Oct.

Jeimmy Bermudez, 374th Force Support Squadron, pre-briefs roll players Oct 4 as part of a noncombatant evacuation operations exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan.. The exercise tested the base noncombatant reception control center personnel's ability to account for and process the noncombatants.

Seven airmen from Elmendorf Air Force Base deployed to Padang, Indonesia, Monday to provide medical care to victims of the recent 7.6-magnitude earthquake.

Staff Sgt. Christopher West marshals a forklift carrying medical supplies off of a C-17 Globemaster III Oct.

Twenty-six members of an Air Force humanitarian assistance rapid response team and a seven-person mobile field surgical team leave Oct.

Seventy-one Airmen, along with associated supplies and equipment, are scheduled to fly from Yokota Air Base, Japan; and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam; to Padang, Indonesia.

Each year, dogs bite 4.7 million Americans, according to Gail Hayes, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Gen. Gary North, Pacific Air Forces Commander, watches Airman 1st Class Jorge Espinosa-Velez, 374th Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsions journeyman, work on a C-130 engine Sept.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan a ' A massive base housing renovation project will resume in January after a three-year delay due to contracting problems and come in more than $20 million under budget, according to Yokota base officials.

For Yokota and Kadena air bases: The weekly flight will depart Seattle International Airport shortly after midnight on Thursdays.

Katrina Young listens as Vietnamese translators share home medical remedies Sept.

Japanese landlords, who built American-style houses like these in Oirase, are worried about a new policy at Misawa Air Base that will require many newly arriving servicemembers and their families to live on base.