3/23/2011 - Staff Sgt. Steven Bird, 374th Communications Squadron cable and antenna maintainer, threads a fiberoptic cable through an underground conduit at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 23. The cabling provided high-speed network access to a new "tent city" of additional office space for military members stationed here temporarily for Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

3/23/2011 - Staff Sgt. Steven Bird, 374th Communications Squadron cable and antenna maintainer, looks up while threading a fiberoptic cable through an underground conduit at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 23. The cabling provided high-speed network access to a new "tent city" of additional office space for military members stationed here temporarily for Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

3/23/2011 - Senior Airman Irvin Johnson, 374th Communications Squadron cable and antenna maintainer, cuts a length of fiberoptic cable off of a reel at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 23. The cabling provided high-speed network access to a new "tent city" of additional office space for military members stationed here temporarily for Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

3/23/2011 - Senior Airman Stephen Bythway, 374th Communications Squadron cable and antenna maintainer, pulls a fiberoptic cable to a communications tent at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 23. The cabling provided high-speed network access to a new "tent city" of additional office space for military members stationed here temporarily for Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)