Paratroopers from the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, board a C-130J Super Hercules in preparation for a joint forcible entry exercise during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 24-02 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.

Yokota News

  • Taste of Home

    The feeling of being that new person. Weeks spent in the dorms without much social interaction. The process of figuring out how to make new friends and be a part of the community only becoming more difficult as time passes. It can all just be such a lonely experience, an experience that only becomes

  • Bio completes vent survey

    Airmen from the 374th Aerospace Medicine Squadron bioenvironmental engineering flight completed a ventilation survey within the Mortuary Affairs embalming station at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 17, 2017. The survey entailed checking the air flow of the ventilation system next to the embalming

  • Yokota High School College and Career Fair

    A student from Yokota High School speaks to a college representative at the annual College and Career Fair, Nov. 15, 2017, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The students were able to get the information they needed about going into the programs they were interested in. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt.

  • Veterans Day

    Veterans Day is a time to recognize, celebrate and remember the sacrifices of all veterans: Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen. “We know that freedom is powerful; it is a gift, a treasure,” said Capt. Michael McDonald, 374th Airlift Wing chaplain. “The most significant and

  • Operation Christmas Child

    In hopes of spreading holiday cheers, members from Yokota Air Base volunteered their time in a box packing party for Operation Christmas Child, Nov. 6, 2017, at Yokota AB.OCC is an international project in which shoeboxes are filled with small toys, hygiene items, and school supplies and sent to

  • MDG holds women’s health event

    Tech. Sgt. Chelsie Smith, 374th Dental Squadron preventative dentistry chief, speaks with Andrea Schubert about proper dental hygiene during the 374th Medical Group ladies night out event Nov. 7, 2017, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Some of the other agencies that were in attendance were family

  • Trump Visits Yokota

    President Donald J. Trump greeted around 2,000 U.S. and Japanese service members and their families as he made his first official visit as president to Japan, Nov. 5, 2017, at Yokota Air Base, Japan.Trump’s visit to Yokota was the start of his scheduled 12-day trip throughout the Indo-Asia Pacific

  • Yokota receives 7th C-130J from Little Rock AFB

    An Air Force C-130J Super Hercules touches down at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 1, 2017. This is the seventh C-130J delivered to Yokota and the first from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., as part of fleet-wide redistribution of assets set in motion by Air Mobility Command. (U.S. Air Force photo by