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  • Team Yokota conducts annual MARE

    Team Yokota held a Major Accident Response Exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 16. The exercise is also scheduled to repeat before the 2023 Friendship Festival, so the entire installation is primed for any emergency.

  • Japan – U.S. Joint Concert

    Leadership from Yokota, the North Kanto Defense Bureau, and Fussa City joined community members to listen to the U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific play alongside approximately 50 junior high school students from three local Japanese schools.

  • Super Bowl LVII at Yokota

    Team Yokota members watch Super Bowl LVII during a 374th Force Support Squadron Super Bowl party at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 13, 2023. The event featured a live viewing of the game as well as game day food, prizes, and meet-and-greets with National Football League cheerleaders.

  • US Marines train Mobile ATC system at Yokota

    U.S. Marine Air Control Squadron 4, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, deployed a team to Yokota to practice on a mobile Air Traffic Control (ATC) radar system at a simulated deployed airfield position near the base flightline, Feb. 7.U.S. Air Force 374th Operations Support Squadron ATC

  • Misawa Airman receives JAAGA award

    For the first time in three years, the Japan-America Air Force Goodwill Association (JAAGA) was able to recognize the 2022 award recipients in person during a ceremony at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Feb. 7, 2023.

  • Kadena food pantry opens doors to military families

    The Kadena food pantry held a ribbon cutting ceremony signifying their grand opening to serve the local military community at Kadena Air Base, Feb. 8, 2023. Until now, no military affiliated food pantries were available on Okinawa. More than 25 percent of armed forces members reported experiencing

  • Surviving life’s hardships

    Delagrave spoke to Team Yokota members at the base theater about his story of overcoming adversity to continue his life after a traumatic injury, as a kick-off event to Yokota’s Year of Professional Development on Feb. 7, 2023.

  • Kadena hosts Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness

    The Honorable Gilbert R Cisneros Jr., the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and Ms. Seileen Mullen, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, visited Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 1, 2023 as part of a U.S. Forces Japan tour.

  • Shogun Showdown 2023

    Senior Airman Kevin Arredondo, 44th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew member, prepares CATM-120C missiles for loading during Shogun Showdown, a weapons load competition at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Feb. 3, 2023. The CATM-120C is a training unit used to simulate the AIM-120 missile. It is

  • LEAPing into action

    Airmen from around the 18th Wing met to strengthen their language skills during a Language Enabled Airman Program professional development session, which consisted of presentations by the Air Force Culture and Language Center and a current LEAP scholar Jan. 26, 2023, at Kadena Air Base, Japan.