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By Mass Communication Specialist Vivian Blakely, Nov. 28, 2011 ATSUGI, Japan - Nine individuals and four organizations from U.S. Navy installations based in Japan found themselves the recipients of a very prestigious award given by the Government of Japan (GOJ) for exhibiting good conduct on Nov. 26, 2011. The Zenkokai Award or the Good Conduct Aw ...
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By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) N. Ross Taylor, Posted: Nov. 18, 2011 USS COWPENS, At Sea -The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) was awarded the Personal Excellence Partnership Flagship Award for Community Service Nov. 15. The award was announced by Vice Adm. J. M. Bird, Director of Navy Staff and ...
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By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 – The commander of U.S. forces during Operation Tomodachi in Japan earlier this year accepted an award Nov. 15 on behalf of the service members he credited with making the humanitarian assistance and disaster response mission a success. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of ...
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by Senior Airman David Carbajal, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 11/16/2011 - KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- A 451st Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain was named the recipient of the Witherspoon Award Oct. 19. Chaplain (Capt.) Kevin Humphrey, deployed from Kadena Air Base, Japan, was selected as one of three 2011 winners of the Na ...
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KADENA, Japan 11/7/2011 Isamu Tanahara, the Air Forces Japanese employee representative at the Length of Service Awards Ceremony listens as Satoshi Tanaka, the Director General for the Okinawa Defense Bureau, reads an award to him during the ceremony for United States Forces Japanese Employees, Oct. 19. Brig. Gen. Matthew H. Molloy, 1 ...
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By Dustin Perry, Torii Editor The thorough evaluation of the Camp Zama Dining Facility that will determine if it wins the Army’s most prestigious food service competition was conducted here on Oct. 21. Having once again advanced through the Installation Management Command – Pacific regional level of the Phillip A. Connelly Award, the Camp Zama DFAC i ...
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By Travis J. Tritten Stars and Stripes, October 21, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – An airman stationed at Kadena Air Base has earned one of the nation’s highest military honors for a combat rescue mission in Afghanistan in the summer of 2010 when he and his crew ran eight non-stop casualty evacuation flights that included the daring rescue of a U.S. soldier wh ...
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By Dustin Perry, Torii Editor Ten mainland U.S. Army Japan facilities were voted “Best of the Pacific” in an annual online poll conducted by the regional edition of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Included in the results, released as an insert with the publication on Sept. 30, were both repeat and first-time honorees from Camp Zama. Voters also sele ...
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