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

  • Air Force officials revise fitness program

    The need for a "clear, understandable and simpler" fitness program will mean significant changes to the Air Force's current fitness program, said the service's top officer during a senior leadership conference held June 4 through 6 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Air Force Chief of Staff

  • Yokota institutes constrained location policy for incoming NCOs

    The 374th Civil Engineer Squadron Housing Management Flight recently introduced a new term to Team Yokota's vocabulary: constrained location. Effective July 1, Yokota Air Base becomes a constrained location, meaning newly arriving, unaccompanied Airmen in the ranks of E-6 and below will be required

  • Judges panel takes Mrs. Yokota 2009 by surprise

    April showers in Tokyo brought not only May showers, but also welcomed the reign of Mrs. Yokota 2009. Heather Fife, wife of Maj. Kurt Fife, 36th Airlift Squadron pilot, will wear the Mrs. Yokota 2009 crown which she received from Jennifer Whetstone, Mrs. Yokota 2008 and a captain in the 374th

  • Continued health care key decision for college-bound dependents

    When it's time for a child to go to college, there are many decisions a family must face. Continued health care coverage is one of them. TRICARE covers eligible students until he or she turns 23 as long as they are enrolled in school full-time. One decision a family will have to make, is determining

  • Yokota environmental flight reduces waste footprint

    The 374th Civil Engineer Squadron Environmental Flight earned the 2007 U.S. Forces Japan Installation Environmental Excellence Award for environmental compliance based largely on the flight's ability to save the government nearly $2 million annually by sending less than 2 percent of refuse off base.

  • Keeping Yokota personnel safe

    Impatient drivers endanger themselves and others daily by not obeying runway crossing lights at the north and south overruns. "Everybody has experienced waiting for the red lights here at some point," said Master Sgt. Dan Hauger, 374th Operations Support Squadron RAPCON assistant chief controller.