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

  • Changing Air Force healthcare through innovation

    Innovation is a buzzword often associated with new technology platforms or successful sports teams, but in reality innovation can apply anywhere someone comes up with a new idea or way of doing something.When it comes to health innovation and research, it’s all about finding new solutions to improve

  • Yokota hosts LPGA golf clinic

    Golf can be an infuriating game. Ever-stretching, well-manicured fairways that are littered with hazards that only a masochist would love. Hazards that will eat up the player’s ball and spit out an ever-growing golf score.Because of this, it’s important for golfers to practice every aspect of the

  • Building spiritual community at Yokota VBS

    More than 150 children participated in Yokota’s AnnualVacation Bible School June 19 to 24. Every summer, the chapel hosts VBS during the week afterschool releases, Monday through Friday for three hours each morning. This year’s theme was “Cave Quest: Following Jesus, thelight of the world.” Children

  • PTSD Awareness leads to positive treatment

    Post-traumatic Stress Disorder can be debilitating in some patients, but thanks to advancements in research and the continued training of mental health providers, treatments are getting better all the time.Maj. Joel Foster, Chief of Air Force Deployment Mental Health, said treating PTSD has improved

  • Yokota welcomes new wing commander

    Col. Kenneth Moss took command of the 374 Airlift Wing from Col. Douglas DeLaMater, 374 AW outgoing commander, during the official wing change of command at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 24, 2016.A change of command is a military tradition that represents a formal transfer of authority and

  • Trust, respect and the ability to communicate: Wing CC reflects on his career

    A tall, energetic, yet relaxed, man explains how trust andrespect are an integral part of his leadership style. “Don’t tell people how to do things; tell them what to doand let them surprise you with their results.”Those words, first spoken by Gen. George Patton, wererecalled by the youthful colonel

  • 374 MXG welcomes new commander

    The outgoing commander of the 374th Maintenance Group, Col. Steven James, said farewell to his Airmen during a change of command ceremony at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 20.

  • Yokota shares Prime BEEF with JASDF

    Lt. Col. David McCleese, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron commander, listens as his words are translated to Japanese for Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel from Iruma Air Base at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 16, 2016. The briefing covered airfield damage repair capabilities and procedures used by

  • Yokota maintainers refurbish the Wing’s Mikoshi

    The 374th Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment flight recently completed the refurbishing of the 374th Airlift Wing’s official mikoshi shrine and celebrated the monument with a rededication ceremony at Yokota June 15.

  • Weather flight increases bilateral knowledge

    A member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force weather station joined the 374th Operations Support Squadron weather flight during a shadow program at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 14, 2016. The program enables members from both services to exchange information to gain knowledge on how their