JASDF thanks RAAF for support during relief operations
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Col. Hiroyoshi Ooura (left), Japan Air Self-Defense Force Air Staff Office, gives his coin to Wing Commander David Howard, Royal Australian Air Force, in gratitude for the RAAF's participation in recent humanitarian relief operations following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan March 11. Amberley's 36th Squadron sent two RAAF air crews and a C-17 to Japan to fly numerous humanitarian missions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)