MPS helps out with force management

In response to current problems with overstaffing in some career fields and understaffing in others, the Air Force is introducing some programs to help with force management. The programs are designed to benefit not only the Air Force as a whole but also individual Airmen.Whereas force management

Samurai Readiness Training Day

Yokota's biggest carwash

Though both Team Yokota's and the Air Force's mission ultimately involves getting airplanes off the ground, this cannot happen without the combined effort of personnel in numerous other jobs, many of them little known.One of these jobs is at the Washrack, where personnel wash off the dirt and debris

PAX Terminal becomes pet hotel for a night

Often when people think of the Air Mobility Command Passenger Terminal at Yokota, they think of people coming and going, not a place for housing pets.But a "pet hotel" is exactly what the terminal became recently, when, on Dec. 30, a snow storm in South Korea grounded a Yokota-bound Patriot Express,

CMSAF visits Yokota

The Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force kicked off his tour of Pacific Air Forces bases with a visit to Yokota Air Base, Dec. 27-28."The exercises and operations that the Airmen across the Pacific Area of Operations participate in truly have an affect across the world," said Chief James Roy.Chief

374th Airlift Wing exceeds CFC goal

This year at Yokota, members of the 374th Airlift Wing stepped up to help raise more than $152,000 for the Combined Federal Campaign.The CFC is the world's largest and most successful annual work-place charity campaign. It consists of hundreds of sub campaigns that raise millions of dollars in

Last-minute holiday shopping? Dollars OK on Route 16

In an effort to increase commerce along Fussa City's Route 16 shopping arcade, bordering Yokota Air Base, the city has implemented a plan to allow U.S. dollars to be used at the local shops and restaurants.Hoping this will increase sales from Yokota community members, approximately 40 shops and

Yokota personnel asked to check mail at least once daily

Every year around mid November millions of people use the United States Postal Service to send gifts and cards to loved ones around the world, including Airmen at Yokota Air Base.As the yearly onslaught of boxes and letters arrives, numbering well into the thousands, the men and women of Yokota's

Yokota’s Veterinary Clinic

The 'atomic family' consists of a man, a woman, and two point five children; one member often overlooked in statistics like this is the family pet. Airman First Class Ryan Lis talked to veterinary clinic OIC Capt Shane Andrews, who tells us how servicemembers at Yokota are making sure this important

Team Yokota mourns the loss of one of its own

Family, friends and fellow Airmen will gather on Saturday, Dec. 18, in the Main Chapel, to remember Staff Sgt. Raymond Allen Briggs, who was killed Dec. 1, by a vehicle while crossing a highway, in San Mateo County, Calif. The ceremony, which will begin at 10:00 a.m., will be preceded by a public