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 Airman killed after being struck by vehicle

    Staff Sgt. Raymond Briggs from the Defense Courier Service was struck by a vehicle and killed Dec. 1 as he attempted to cross a highway while on leave in San Mateo County, Calif. "The sudden death of Sergeant Briggs is a tragic loss to his family, Team Yokota and the entire U.S. Air Force," said

  • COMMENTARY: COMPACAF extends holiday greetings to PACAF family

    As the holiday season approaches and we start to think about entering into 2011, I offer my heartfelt "thank you" to our entire Pacific Air Forces team and each of our family members. Our continued service in this region and in our deployments throughout the world is vitally important to our nation

  • Yokota's American Red Cross helps spread holiday cheer

    Members of the Yokota community gathered together to help Yokota's American Red Cross sort through thousands of letters for the Second Annual Holiday Mail for Heroes card sorting event, here Nov. 29. Each year people from around the United States make holiday cards for servicemembers, the cards are

  • Keeping Yokota moms fit

    The team at Yokota's Health and Wellness Center has recently added a prenatal aerobics class to help moms-to-be stay in shape.Staff Sergeant Treshawna Gwendo, diet therapist at the 374th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, is the instructor for the class and says the class is for anyone who is a new mom

  • Airmen awarded medal for risking their lives

    Airman 1st Class Joseph Recalde and Senior Airman Roy Tort from the 374th Security Forces Squadron were both recently awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal.The two Airmen received the medal for their bravery during a fire-fight at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan."At first, words couldn't describe

  • Yokota's ORE

    A learned skill often becomes less effective over time unless it is regularly put into practice, that's why Yokota Air Base has quarterly Operational Readiness Exercises to practice responding to a number of different contingencies. Airman First Class Ryan Lis talked to Wing chief of Exercises, Maj

  • Japanese Students Become Teachers

    Children normally go to school as students, but for one day, the students of a Fussa Elementary school were the teachers and the airmen of Yokota were the students. Senior Airman Andrew Helmkamp tells us about this interesting exchange of roles.