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Yokota displays airlift capabilites

(Right to left) Capt. Jonathan Palka and Capt. Jonathan Coffey, 459th Airlift Squadron UH-1N pilots, prepare to take off at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 459 AS demonstrated their airlift capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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(Left to right) Capt. Jonathan Palka and Capt. Jonathan Coffey, both with the 459th Airlift Squadron UH-1N pilots, fly over the Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 459 AS demonstrated their airlift capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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1st Lt. Kaleb Young, 459th Airlift Squadron UH-1N Iroquois pilot, and Tech. Sgt. Christopher Rector, 459 AS flight engineer, wave to festivalgoers over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 459 AS demonstrated their airlift capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Baker, 374th Airlift Wing public affairs photojournalist, captures aerial photographs over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Tech. Sgt. Christopher Rector, 459th Airlift Squadron UN-1N Iroquois flight engineer, performs visual conformation over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 459 AS demonstrated their airlift capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Tens of thousands of visitors crowd the fligtline during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Tens of thousands of visitors crowd the fligtline during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Capt. Thomas Bernard, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130H pilot, greets a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Maj. Dominique Haig, 36th Airlift Squadron chief of standardization and evaluation evaluator C-130 Hercules pilot, performs pre-flight inspection at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Maj. Dominique Haig, second left, 36th Airlift Squadron chief of standardization and evaluation evaluator C-130 Hercules pilot, gives a pre-flight briefing at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Staff Sgt. Michael Allison, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules flight engineer, performs a pre-flight inspection at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Maj. Dominique Haig, 36th Airlift Squadron chief of standardization and evaluation evaluator C-130 Hercules pilot, flies over the Kanto plains, Japan, during the 2016 Friendship Festival, Sept. 17, 2016. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Maj. Dominique Haig and Capt, Bryan Gibbs, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules pilots, fly over the Kanto plains, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Capt. Bryan Gibbs, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules pilot, flies over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Maj. Frank Laras, 374th Airlift Wing plans and programs C-130H navigator, enters navigation information in the flight deck of a C-130 Hercules over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Senior Airman Andrew Fox and Tech. Sgt. Kyle Favorite, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules loadmasters, check a low-cost, low-altitude bundle over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the American-Japanese Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Senior Airman Andrew Fox, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130H loadmaster, drops a low-cost, low-altitude bundle over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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A low-cost, low-altitude bundle drops to a drop zone at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Tens of thousands of visitors crowd the flightline during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors to the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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(Left to right) Senior Airman Andrew Fox and Tech. Sgt. Kyle Favorite, both with the 36th Airlift Squadron C-130H loadmasters, perform visual conformation over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the American-Japanese Friendship Festival. The 36 AS demonstrated their airdrop capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Tech. Sgt. Kyle Favorite, 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules loadmaster, holds a U.S. flag outside of a C-130H during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17 ,2106. The U.S. Flag, waved by Favorite, was held out of one C-130 as a Japanese flag was simultaneously held outside another taxing aircraft symbolizing the U.S.-Japan partnership and reinforcing the general idea of the festival—to increase bilateral relationships between the two counties. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Fireworks explode behind a C-130 Hercules during the 2016 Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 18, 2016. Over 135,000 visitors attended the festival designed to bolster the bilateral relationship shared between the United States and Japan. In addition to static displays and live music, the festival offered a variety of American and Japanese food. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)

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Yokota displays airlift capabilities

Published Sept. 22, 2016
By Yasuo Osakabe
374th Airlift Wing Public Affiars

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- (Right to left) Capt. Jonathan Palka and Capt. Jonathan Coffey, 459th Airlift Squadron UH-1N pilots, prepare to take off at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 17, 2016, during the 2016 Japanese-American Friendship Festival. The 459 AS demonstrated their airlift capabilities to festivalgoers. Yokota welcomed over 135,000 visitors for the festival. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe/Released)