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

  • Keeping the lamp lit: Airmen serve as modern lighthouse keepers

    After crossing more than a thousand miles of ocean, every pilot flying over Japan relies on a small unit of Airmen here to guide their planes and passengers safely home. Although technology has changed over the last hundred years, the lighthouse is just as useful as ever. The Airmen of the 374th

  • Base library summer reading program "is so delicious"

    With the end of the school term and the beginning of summer, students across base have the opportunity to partake in the summer reading program.The Base Library and military installation libraries around the world are encouraging kids and adults to read this summer with the annual Department of

  • 25 Airmen graduate from ALS

    Congratulations to the 25 Airmen who recently graduated from the Airman Leadership School here June 21. John L. Levitow award winner: - Staff Sgt. David Gaines, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron Academic Achievement and Distinguished Graduate award winner: - Senior Airman Ashley Roshea, 374th Force

  • 374th SFS NCO wins GEICO award

    An NCO from the 374th Security Forces Squadron was recently awarded the 2011 GEICO Military Service Award in Washington D.C. Staff Sgt. Mark King, a security forces trainer hailing from Henderson County, N. C., represented the Air Force in the drug and alcohol abuse prevention category."Mark has

  • Win $10K for your ideas

    Tech. Sgt. John Spence, a civil engineer technician previously assigned to Yokota, was looking for ways to save his office some money. When he submitted an idea to the Innovative Development Through Employee Awareness program, he never expected to win $10,000. It's everyone's responsibility to

  • A somber ritual upon a mountaintop

    Hearing stories about World War II generally do not give the impression of internationally made friendships. But a single event during that war has inspired an annual ceremony commemorating human decency and respect.On June 16, a group of 26 Airmen and other Americans from Yokota climbed Mount