Eyes on the skies
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Senior Airman James Dela-Pena, 374th Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, uses a light gun to signal traffic crossing the active runway here. Radar approach control facility and tower personnel will move to a new facility in November. Workers are currently setting up new equipment in the facility, which replaces a control tower and RAPCON in use since the 1960s. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)