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 evac plan promotes bilateral ops

    Airmen hosted a Noncombatant Evacuation Operation demonstration for Lt. Gen. Masayuki Hironaka, Air Support Command commander, and other Japan Air Self-Defense Force service members at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 28, 2013. The demonstration was conducted to promote bilateral training between the

  • Tobacco-use policy fully implemented at Yokota

    April 1, 2013, marks the day when tobacco-use will be limited only to designated tobacco-use areas and housing units for everyone at Yokota Air Base, Japan. This policy is in direct alignment with Air Force Instruction 40-102, Tobacco Use in the Air Force, dated March 26, 2012. "Though the AFI

  • 2013 Community Assessment launches at Yokota

    The Community Assessment launches March 29, 2013, at Yokota Air Base, Japan, and is distributed to approximately 50 percent of Active Duty Airmen, their spouses and Air Force civilians stationed here. The Community Assessment is a survey that provides community members a direct voice to the Air

  • Yokota Theater goes digital

    Since 1977, the theater at Yokota Air Base, Japan, has provided service members with the latest Hollywood flicks through 35mm filmstrip rolls. Almost 40 years later and almost a century since film began ruling the movie industry, the base theater is converting to a digital format.The Yokota Theater

  • AFAF campaign kicks off at Yokota

    The Air Force Assistance Fund is a program allowing Airmen to help Airmen in times of need. It was established as an annual effort to raise funds for the charitable affiliates providing support to the Air Force family -- active-duty members, family members, retirees, reservists, guardsmen who are

  • Airmen, Japanese remember the past, honor the present

    Airmen from Yokota Air Base, Japan, joined local Japanese citizens March 20, 2013, in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, to remember American B-29 flight crews who lost their lives during a World War II raid over the city and unveil a memorial monument in their honor. Since 1971, Yokota members have traveled

  • Yokota partners with local community during EME

    Yokota first responders joined North Kanto Defense Bureau liaisons as part of a joint emergency management exercise March 21, 2013. The exercise is the first of many that will partner the two organizations together for faster, more comprehensive emergency response. In the exercise scenario, the