Airspace authority: Yokota’s ATC tower
Staff Sgt. Christopher Palacio, 374th Operations Support Squadron air traffic control specialist, operates an approach control station as he separates, sequences and directs aircraft into five different Japanese and U.S. military bases throughout the region at Yokota Air Base, Japan, May 8, 2015. Palacio works in the radar approach control section of the tower, which can monitor and control aircraft in an area of 20,000 square miles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Michael Washburn/Released)