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 MDG Counters COVID Cases with Augmentee Program

    In response to a spike in COVID-19 cases, 374th Medical Group public health professionals enacted a more aggressive campaign against the virus by tapping into the augmentee program, Nov. 23, Yokota Air Base, Japan.Airmen from a variety of career fields, including mental health, optometry and medical

  • Yokota Airmen train on 515th AMOW C-5M Super Galaxy

    Maintainers from the 730th Air Mobility Squadron spent ten days training on a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Nov. 2–12 on Yokota Air Base. Yokota often serves as a refueling station for aircraft flying through the Pacific, which means a variety of transient

  • Yokota hosts first 5th Air Force Agile Combat Employment conference

    Yokota hosted the first of many multi-discipline conferences, Nov. 9 and 10, 2020, which included action officers from agencies across the  5th Air Force Wings and opened new doors toward advancing the Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment initiative.ACE is a new approach to wartime readiness across

  • U.S., Japan Sharpen Skills During Keen Sword 21

    Exercise Keen Sword 21, began Oct. 25 and has been going at full steam across the Indo-Pacific region over the past two weeks.Approximately 9,000 U.S. service members from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force conducted training with their Japan Self-Defense Force counterparts from

  • USAF and JASDF conduct Silver Flag Training

    Airmen with the 374th Civil Engineer Squadron and Japan Air Self-Defense Force along with the 554th Red Horse Squadron assigned to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, conducted week-long bilateral airfield damage repair training during a Silver Flag training exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan.During the

  • Length of Service

    The mighty Sakura cherry blossom trees that tower over the Yokota streets were once small saplings, no higher than your knee.Daniel Timperio, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron furniture and upholstery supervisor, and Keiichi Nishimura, 374th CES deputy fire chief, remember the start of these saplings