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 to begin Japanese Encephalitis vaccination

    Effective February 1, 2015, vaccine shots for Japanese Encephalitis will be mandatory for all active duty Airmen, whether assigned, deployed or on TDY status in Japan or the Republic of Korea for more than 30 days. Department of Defense civilians, family members and those heading to Japan are also

  • COPE SOUTH 15 launches in Bangladesh

    U.S. Air Force and Bangladesh air force personnel took to the sky Jan. 24 for the launch of Exercise COPE SOUTH 15, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, bilateral tactical airlift exercise at BAF Base Bangabandhu, Bangladesh.Eighty U.S. Airmen along with three U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules aircraft from

  • Unit Citation awarded to Yokota CAP

    Civil Air Patrol Yokota Cadet Squadron, NHQ-103, was awarded the Unit Citation Award from Headquarters CAP in January 2015 for performing "in an exemplary manner for the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program," from Jan. 1, 2011 to Oct. 1, 2014. An award presentation ceremony was held at the squadron on

  • Yokota uses focused inspections

    Airmen from the 374th Airlift Wing recently underwent a Samurai Readiness Inspection that tested the wing's capabilities in a unique way.Instead of a week-long scenario that tested the whole spectrum of contingency responses, the Wing Inspection Team focused the inspection on a few large, specific

  • PACAF, Bangladesh to participate in exercise COPE SOUTH 15

    U.S. Air Force and Bangladesh air force personnel will participate in exercise COPE SOUTH 15, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, bilateral tactical airlift exercise, at BAF Base Bangabandhu, Bangladesh, Jan. 24 through 30.Approximately 80 U.S. Airmen, along with three U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules

  • Yokota aircrew practices survival tactics in Fuji foothills

    Freezing rain pierces already soaked flight suits. Pools of water gather in boots. Hands are numb and stomachs empty. Warmth is a distant memory, but the aircrew isn't focused on the uncomfortable environment surrounding them. They are focused on one thing--survival.An aircrew with the 36th Airlift

  • DeCA to airlift certain products to some Pacific stores

    The Defense Commissary Agency will begin airlifting essential chill items to stores in Korea, mainland Japan and Okinawa today to alleviate some of the ongoing product shortages in the Pacific.DeCA will use commercial contracted airlift to transport essential produce, yogurt, cottage cheese and

  • Yokota History Article Part 7: The 1980s to the Present

    The frenzy of activity at Yokota during World War Two, the Occupation, the Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War, and the Kanto Plain Consolidation Plan (KPCP) construction boom contrasts greatly with the relative calmness and stability of the subsequent decades. That said, Yokota saw continued

  • Yokota History Article Part 6: The Kanto Plain Consolidation Plan, 1971-79

    Along with changes in flying operations - the move away from bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance -- by the early 1970s the Air Force had decided to return most of its properties in the Kanto Plain-to the Japanese government as part of a multiyear, multi-million dollar project called the Kanto