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 teen center wins $10,000 in competition

    The Yokota Teen Center is receiving a $10,000 facelift after a group of teens submitted a music video in the Boys and Girls Clubs of America Pirates of the Caribbean music video contest. Money received from the competition will be used to modernize the Panther Cave's recording studio. "I'm really

  • Airmen test their mettle during Combat Endurance Challenge

    Eight teams of U.S. Air Force Airmen and one team from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force competed in the third annual Combat Endurance Challenge here Oct. 1 at the Yokota High School football field to raise funds for the National September 11 Memorial.At just over three miles, the competition

  • CFC begins with a running start

    Approximately 350 Yokota Airmen showed up early Oct. 3 at the Yokota Field to participate in a 5k to kick off this year's Combined Federal Campaign.The run was hosted to raise awareness about the different agencies Airmen can help support through the CFC. "The CFC is such a great cause," said Staff

  • Pilot from the 36th AS fulfills 10 year dream

    As the old proverb says, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and that is true of 1st Lt. Evan Dineen. With an engineering salesman for a father and a retired flight attendant for a mother, there is little doubt that Dineen was bound to be a pilot.The Laguna Beach, Calif. native grew up in a

  • School Age kitchen wins PACAF-wide competition

    Some people know that in the back of the School Age Program sits a kitchen where Mildred Halili cooks for children. What people probably don't know is that she and Geraldine McNeill are both winners of the 2011 Pacific Air Forces' Top Kitchen competition."I didn't expect to win," said Mildred

  • Yokota prepares for Viking Challenge

    The second annual Viking Challenge Relay will take place at the Yokota High School track on Oct. 22 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.Yokota's Route 56 will be hosting the Viking Challenge, a 12-hour relay race consisting of eight to 10 member teams who continuously walk, jog or run, to raise funds for the