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By Sandra Block - USA Today, Monday Nov 7, 2011 19:11:48 EST There are many ways we honor members of the armed services. We rise and applaud them at sporting events, wiping our eyes at the sight of muscular young men with prosthetic legs. We hang banners from overpasses, welcoming home local men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. We attach “ ...
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Yokota Airmen get fit, give back YOKOTA, Japan 10/7/2011 During the first Friday of each month, the 374th Airlift Wing meets for the wing run to build esprit de corps and get fit. A C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet taxis by as Airmen from the 374th Airlift Wing stretch for the wing run at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Oct. 7. ...
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Misawa Celebrates CFC’s 50th Anniversary 10/3/2011 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan U.S. Air Force Col. Al Wimmer, 35th Fighter Wing vice commander, makes a donation to kick-off the 50th Anniversary of the Combined Federal Campaign here, Oct. 3. Each fall, millions of Federal employees are invited to donate to one or more of the 40,00 ...
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by Senior Airman Lynsie Nichols, 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs 10/3/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Approximately 350 Yokota Airmen showed up early Oct. 3 at the Yokota Field to participate in a 5k to kick off this year's Combined Federal Campaign. The run was hosted to raise awareness about the different agencies Airmen can help support ...
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by 2nd Lt. Christopher Love, 374th Airlift Wing/Public Affairs 10/4/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Eight teams of U.S. Air Force Airmen and one team from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force competed in the third annual Combat Endurance Challenge here Oct. 1 at the Yokota High School football field to raise funds for the National September 11 Memori ...
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by Tech. Sgt. Amanda Savannah, 18th Wing Public Affairs 10/5/2011 - KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Team Kadena members gathered at the Risner Fitness Center before sunrise Sept. 30 to help Kadena's first sergeants help others. More than 300 people registered to participate in a 6-, 10- and 20-kilometer challenge run fundraiser the "diamonds&q ...
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Tip-A-Cop Event Raises Money for KSO KADENA AIR BASE, Japan 10/4/2011 Marine 2nd Lt. Andrew White, Marine Corps PMO, takes a photo with Sasha Gilliard and Loretta Falco, Macaroni Grill staff members, during a Kadena Special Olympics Macaroni Grill Tip-A-Cop event on Camp Foster, Japan, Oct. 1. The event raised $1,350 for KSO ...
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By Dustin Perry Torii Editor The start of the 50th year of the Combined Federal Campaign, the world’s largest workplace charity program, was marked with a kickoff ceremony held Monday at the U.S. Army Japan headquarters here. The kickoff was meant to raise awareness of the program and emphasize the level of importance the USARJ and I Corps (F ...
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