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

  • Biological “Brothers in Arms”

    Staff Sgt. Ja Lee, combat arms instructor, and his oldest brother, Airman 1st Class Dae Lee, patrolman, proudly serve alongside each other in the 374th Security Forces Squadron, at Yokota Air Base.

  • Yokota celebrates Month of the Military Child

    Col. Julie Gaulin, 374th Airlift Wing vice commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Kenneth Hauck, 374th Operations Group command chief, signed a Month of the Military Child proclamation at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 7, 2022. Established in 1986 by former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the Month of

  • Yokota hosts first Project Enigma class

    The 730th Air Mobility Squadron hosted a week-long professional development course called Project Enigma, which focused on retention while building supervisor-Airmen relationships, March 28 to April 1.

  • Combat Arms training 2022

    Airman 1st Class Derek Zickafoose, 374th Security Forces Squadron patrolman, checks an M240 light machine gun before providing it to students during an M240 and M249 machine guns qualification at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, March 10, 2022. The annual training is conducted to

  • Yokota Airman down under captures excellence

    Four seas, two hemispheres and nearly eight-thousand miles separate Tokyo, Japan from Canberra, Australia.Canberra, is home to the 337th Air Support Flight, a tenant unit part of the 374th Airlift Wing on Yokota Air Base and Tech Sgt. Amanda Osborne, 337th ASUF flight chief.After arriving in

  • Yokota provides medical supplies to Timor-Leste

    A medical products box sits at a medical warehouse at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Oct. 7, 2021. Pacific Air Force is supporting the U.S. Embassy in Dili to mitigate COVID-19 in Timor-Leste. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Tyrone Thomas)

  • The Ever-Changing Face of Weather

    Leadership needs accurate and immediate information when preparing military operations, without this information, personnel and assets are put at risk.

  • Helicopter Symposium 2021

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Leonard Kosinski, Fifth Air Force deputy commander, welcomes Helicopter Symposium attendees, Sept. 8, 2021, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Yokota hosted its first Helicopter Symposium Sept. 8-9, designed to strengthen relationships between units in and around the Kanto area