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

  • Multilateral leadership celebrates with New Year Jumps 2023

    Yokota Air Base leadership, alongside multilateral partners from the US Army, US Navy, and Japan Self Defense Forces, observed the annual New Year's Jumps exercise at the Camp Narashino Training Area in Chiba, Japan, on Jan. 8, 2023. The first jump exercise of the year in Japan showcases a bilateral

  • Fueling the Pacific

    Aircraft land at Yokota Air Base almost every day, serving as the busiest transportation hub in the Western Indo-Pacific and servicing aircraft from all over the world.But aircraft can’t get here without help. An important part of getting planes to where they need to go, is fueling them up. The

  • Yokota participates in multilateral New Year’s Jump exercise

    A multilateral collaboration of U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, British army, Australian army, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members conducted an annual New Year’s Jump exercise at Camp Narashino, Chiba, Japan, Jan. 8, 2023.More than 180 paratroopers participated in the event jumping from three

  • Yokota postal operations ramp up for the holidays

    The Pacific Air Forces Air Postal Squadron has been sorting and delivering two to three times the amount of mail during the holiday season while working seven days a week to ensure an increased flow of mail can be sorted and delivered across the region. Yokota Air Base’s geographical location makes

  • Yokota member helps wash away families’ deployment stressors

    Danielle Gomez, a stay-at-home mom and active duty spouse at Yokota Air Base, decided to help her neighbors by offering free house cleaning services to families with a deployed spouse. Stationed at Yokota AB since 2018, Gomez has firsthand experience on the strain deployments have on families.

  • Yokota leadership serves Christmas lunch

    The 374th Airlift Wing leadership served holiday meals to service members and families at the Samurai Café Dining Facility at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Dec. 23, 2022.

  • Yokota youth get firsthand look at air mobility mission

    Members of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron teamed with the base Child and Youth Centers to host a squadron immersion tour from Dec. 19-20, to educate children of the base community on how the unit contributes to the airlift mission across the region.More than 70 dependents, from the age of 5 years