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

  • 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

  • Surgical disaster team trains for real-world contingencies

    Battlefield injuries can be unpredictable for service members. The 51st Medical Operations Squadron surgical disaster team has trained for real-world contingencies by providing medical care for service members with simulated injuries during Exercise Beverly Bulldog 15-01.A surgical disaster team is

  • Yokota History Part 5: Yokota and the Vietnam War, 1964-71

    January 1964 was a significant month for Yokota Air Base for it marked the space in time when the base went from primarily hosting bombers to becoming a well-known fighter base. On 8 January the 3rd Bomb Wing, which had become the base operating unit for the second time in November 1960, departed