Units across the Air Force are mourning four Airmen who died in separate incidents this month, including one who collapsed during a physical fitness test and another who local police said died after being shot by a fellow Airman.
Yokota Air Base
Thousands of Airmen and scores of aircraft have poured into the Indo-Pacific region over the past few weeks for Resolute Force Pacific 2025, the Air Force’s largest-ever contingency-response exercise in the region.
Seven C-130 airlifters from five countries lined up for an “elephant walk” on Guam and then flew alongside each other Dec. 14 to cap off Operation Christmas Drop. Every year, USAF and its allies drop thousands of pounds of food, clothes, medical supplies, fishing gear, and toys ...
U.S. Space Forces Japan activated Dec. 3 at Yokota Air Base, the latest milestone in the service’s push to establish components within combatant commands and a sign of a deepening space partnership between the two allies, officials said.
Yokota Air Base evacuated 11 C-130J Super Hercules in under 24 hours ahead of Typhoon Ampil near coastal Japan on Aug. 16. The typhoon had maximum sustained winds of 132 mph and gusts reaching 160 mph, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane.
Yokota Air Base will not fly its CV-22 Ospreys in a joint training exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces starting this weekend. U.S. Marine Corps and Japan Self-Defense Force Ospreys will participate in the exercise from July 28 to Aug 7.
The improvements delivered through an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) includes $406 million of guaranteed energy savings over the course of the 25-year contract—meaning it requires no upfront investment from Yokota Air Base or U.S. taxpayers.
Two of the U.S. Air Force’s three bases in Japan got new commanders on July 9 and the outgoing head of U.S. Forces Japan and the 5th Air Force warned of “increasingly aggressive” adversaries, ahead of major force changes.
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Forty-three days after a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan, the Pentagon has halted search and recovery operations, Air Force Special Operations Command announced Jan. 11. Of the eight Airmen killed in the crash, the remains of one, Maj. Eric ...
Air Force Special Operations Command paid tribute to the eight Airmen killed in a CV-22 Osprey crash off the coast of Japan last month. The command posted a brief biography of each Airman on its Facebook page on Dec. 7, the latest in a line ...
The eight Airmen aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan were declared dead as the operation transitioned to search and recovery Dec. 5.
