U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • McChord Airmen support first voluntary departure flight from Japan

    Members here helped welcome 233 Department of Defense personnel and family members who voluntarily departed Japan after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the island March 11."This is a tremendous team effort from the entire joint base community aimed at easing a difficult time for DOD

  • First C-17 touches down in Sendai

    A C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, landed in Sendai March 20 to part in the relief support mission here. Members of the 517th Airlift Squadron delivered an all-terrain forklift to download supplies, including four pallets of water and six pallets of blankets and

  • AFGSC Airmen support Operation Odyssey Dawn

    Airmen piloting three B-2 Spirits returned to Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., after striking targets in Libya in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn.The B-2s returned after a more than 25-hour mission in support of the international response to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.The B-2s employed 45

  • No-fly zone in place, but danger remains, admiral says

    While the attacks on Libya's integrated air and missile defense system have been successful, thousands of anti-aircraft artillery emplacements and portable missile launchers still pose threats to coalition air crews, the director of the Joint Staff said March 21.On the second day of Operation

  • Smooth departure processes at Misawa soothe nerves

    Dog handlers from the U.S. Agency for International Development brought their working dogs to the collocated club at Misawa Air Base, Japan, to entertain the children as their parents wait in the voluntary departure processing lines March 19, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Phillip

  • Mobility Airmen supporting Japan relief effort on multiple fronts

    Every day since March 11 when the earthquake and a tsunami struck Japan, mobility Airmen have been on a busy pace.Reports show Airmen flying C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules aircraft moving cargo and personnel to support Operation Tomodachi, the operation designation for the Japan relief

  • Misawa Airmen coordinate volunteer efforts in local community

    It wasn't long after the ground stopped shaking in Japan that people began asking, "What can I do to help?"Hundreds of volunteers, military members, families and civilians, came forward at Misawa Air Base in the days following the March 11, 9.0-magnitude earthquake. It soon became clear that a

  • Contamination avoidance team ensures health, safety of Yokota aircrews

    Tech. Sgt. Michael Welles is checked for radiation exposure March 13, 2011, at Yokota Air Base, Japan, after a flight to northern Japan. A team of bioenvironmental engineers from the 374th Aerospace Medicine Squadron and emergency managers from the 374th Civil Engineer Squadron were checking

  • Mildenhall tankers refuel aircraft supporting Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn

    Maintainers with the 100th Air Refueling Wing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, prepare a KC-135 Stratotanker for a refueling mission March 19, 2011, in support of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn. JTF Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and

  • B-2 enforces no-fly zone

    One of three B-2 Spirit bombers returns to Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., from a mission in support of enforcing Operation Odyssey Dawn no-fly zone over Libya March 20, 2011. The no-fly zone was imposed by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 authorizing military action. (U.S. Air