Yokota Airmen play vital role in cooling Fukushima power plant

A team of Yokota Airmen labored nonstop March 25-27 to design and create essential components for water pumps to be used at a nuclear power plant in northern Japan. The power plant, located roughly 130 miles north of Yokota Air Base in Fukushima Prefecture, suffered catastrophic damage to its

Yokota moves 1 million lbs of water to Sendai Airport

Wing commander flies water to Sendai

Sendai 'showered' with relief

Sending one million pounds of water to Sendai

Yokota's Hometown Heroes 26 March 2011

Fixin' to fly: Night shift maintainers ensure C-130s ready for Operation Tomodachi

Most humanitarian aid comes in the form of food, water and fuel. But sometimes it comes in the form of a wrench wielded by a maintainer who uses it to fix a C-130 Hercules so an aircrew can deliver pallets of relief supplies to the people who need them the most.And in the aftermath of a recent

RAAF team completes two-week Japan relief mission

Deployed Yokota Airmen raise funds for Japanese relief efforts

Yokota Air Base has been a flurry of activity since Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami March 11, but for one deployed Yokota Airman, being separated from her home station didn't stop her from helping the people of Japan."When the disaster hit Japan, my immediate thought was, 'What can I do

Yokota C-130s help sustain Misawa relief operations