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  • YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airman 1st Class Charles Sarrazin, 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron, guides forklift driver Staff Sgt. Bryan Wickline, 730th Air Mobility Squadron, while picking up a pallete Feb. 13 as part of the Installation Readiness Response Exercise that started Monday. IRREs are conducted regularly to ensure base personnel are prepared to carry out deployment operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airmen 1st Class John M. Albea)

    Readiness responders

  • Master Sgt. Jeff Harris, 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, is congratulated by Lt. Gen. Bruce Wright, United States Forces Japan and 5th Air Force commander, and Col. Scott Goodwin, 374th Airlift Wing commander during a surprise promotion ceremony, as part of the 5 AF Stripes for Exceptional Performers program , at the 374 AMXS nightshift roll call Jan. 24. Master Sgt. Leopoldo Polance-Sierra, 374th Operations Support Squadron, Tech. Sgt. Donald Cruz, 459th Airlift Squadron and Tech. Sgt. Robert Lumaban, 374th Mission Support Squadron were also recently STEP promoted in December. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. David Westover)

    Steppin'up

  • YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- The following chiefs and chief selects were inducted at a ceremony Feb. 2. Left to right: Chief Master Sergeants Scott Cornell, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron; Howard Heisey, 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Akihiko Ishibashi, Japan Air Self Defense Force Signal Intercept Squadron, Hiroshi Kurakata, Ichigaya Air Station, Air Staff Office training section; Osamu Otaki, HQ Air Intelligence Wing, Fuchu Air Base; and Senior Master Sergeants Michael Breazell, PACAF Air Postal Squadron; Charles Funkhouser, 374 CES and Eric Strohecker, USAF Band of the Pacific-Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class John Albea)

    Chief promotion

  • YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Army Lt. Col. Matt Rasmussen, United States Forces Japan, deputy director for Manpower, Personnel and Support, recently became a bone marrow donor for an anonymous leukemia patient. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Dominique Brown)

    USFJ Army officer donates bone marrow

    A Yokota Air Base community member assigned to United States Forces Japan recently became a bone marrow donor, potentially saving the life of an anonymous leukemia patient. Lt. Colonel Matt Rasmussen, USFJ deputy director for Manpower, Personnel and Support, had been sampled as a donor and put in the National Bone Marrow Registry several years ago.
  • YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Senior Airman Josh Joslyn, 374th Logistic Readiness Squadron, reunites with his daughter Jasmine Joslyn after his deployment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Veronica Pierce)

    Happy homecoming

  • Yokota Airmen participate in Cope Tiger 2007

    Nearly 50 Yokota Air Base aircrews, maintainers and medics left Japan for Thailand and are participating in this year's Exercise Cope Tiger 2007. Cope Tiger is a joint Thai and U.S. sponsored multi-lateral command post exercise, field training exercise and humanitarian civic service exercise between the nations of Thailand, Singapore and the U.S.
  • KORAT, Thailand -- Senior Airman David Hernandez, an optometry technician with the 374th Medical Group from Yokota Air Base, Japan, uses a tumbling E chart to gauge visual acuity during and eye exam at the Ban Chai Mong Khon School. Airmen Hernandez is one of 14 medical and dental personnel from bases throughout the Pacific participating in the Exercise Cope Tiger 2007 Humanitarian Civil Action projects in Thailand. The tumbling E chart is used when language or literacy is an obstacle when giving an exam. (Photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Catherine Talento)

    Airmen assiting Thailand during Cope Tiger exercise

  • Community donates to Angel Tree

    The Yokota Angel Tree Program kicked off Saturday at the Yokota Community Center. "This program was established to help children here have a great holiday," said Master Sgt. Joseph Yabes, 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron first sergeant. "Each year, names of angels, (children whose family may be experiencing financial difficulty) are solicited by

  • Yokota Hercs ready to execute 54th anniversary of Christmas Drops

    The 374th Airlift Wing and 36th Airlift Squadron will continue the 54-year tradition of delivering much needed supplies to dozens of Micronesian islands beginning this weekend, as part of Operation Christmas Drops. This will be the 19th consecutive year in which Airmen from the 374th Airlift Wing have teamed up with Andersen Air Force Base, Guam to

  • Winter safety important

    With the holidays and winter time well upon us, the hectic schedule of shopping, planning parties, ski and snowboarding trips or that vacation back to the CONUS may be a little overwhelming. With everything else going on it is important to keep the season joyous by keeping safety in mind. One thing we should pay attention to is our vehicles.
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