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

  • Exercise learns from past, saves future

    5 a.m. It is a quiet Saturday morning in Tachikawa. The silence is broken with the birds singing to greet early commuters and the rising sun.5:05 a.m. The ground begins to shake violently. The concrete floor waves like jelly, the railroads turn and twist like a wild snake, and skyscrapers crumble as

  • Air Force shares airdrop techniques with JASDF

    Air Force members at Yokota Air Base, Japan, and Japan Air Self-Defense Force members, have a unique relationship, continually sharing information, experience and events between each other. In the most recent exchange of knowledge, members with the 374th Airlift Wing showcased their low-cost,

  • AFP wings carry Operation Damayan air ops

    The Philippine Air Force announced it will resume responsibility for coordinating humanitarian airlift operations Nov. 26, a move that no longer requires Joint Task Force 505's assistance with command and control of air assets supporting Operation Damayan. A U.S. Air Force C-130H aircraft delivered

  • Jump Week: Marines over Yokota

    Part of their quarterly certification, Marines with the 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, parachute out of C-130 Hercules' over Yokota Air Base.

  • Operation Damayan airlift operations intensify

    Airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron, launched 24-hour C-130H aircraft night operations in support of Operation Damayan Nov. 18, substantially multiplying the joint airlift component here and increasing the flow of evacuation flights from Tacloban, the region hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan.Five