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

  • Yokota airlifters finish RF-A exercise

    Airmen with and in support of the 36th Airlift Squadron returned to Yokota Monday after traveling to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 2-24, to train combat airlift capabilities and increase joint and multinational relationships at RED FLAG-Alaska.The 98-member team, made up of aircrew,

  • USO Sesame Street supports military families

    An announcer gets on stage in front of an audience of children and parents, introducing the United Service Organization Sesame Street tour. A few moments later, to loud cheers and applause, Elmo runs on stage and begins to sing and dance "The Elmo Slide" to a peppy beat. The children hold up

  • Talent sought, talent found at Yokota

    Every year, Airmen and their families are given the opportunity to participate in one of three Air Force wide talent competitions: "Operation Talent Search," "Mission Audition" and "#VisualUpload," as part of the "Air Force Entertainer of the Year Program."The program provides an avenue for Team

  • Airmen experience multinational Red Flag-Alaska

    A 16-foot wooden table stretches between aircrew lockers and cabinets. A red toolbox sits at one end of the table; helmets, oxygen masks and parachutes are within sight. The room is temporarily housing members with 374th Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment for the duration of RED

  • Cable Dawgs rescue Yokota comms

    Beneath Yokota Air Base, Japan, in a network of tunnels big enough for one or two men to fit in, runs thousands of feet of copper cable. This infrastructure powers communications in an organization that cannot function without them."We're the backbone for anything that has to happen cyber-wise,"

  • Red Flag-Alaska: Historic first JGSDF jump

    A C-130 Hercules with the 36th Airlift Squadron became the first U.S. Aircraft to drop Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members on U.S. soil, Aug. 12, 2015, during RED FLAG-Alaska.The JGSDF company, with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Airborne Brigade, alongside the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion (Airborne),