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374 Airlift Wing/Public Affairs 12/6/2011 - YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Yokota officials are responding to a possible unexploded ordnance discovered at a construction site in front of the base fitness center here Dec. 6 at approximately 1 p.m. Officials cordoned off the area around the construction site after a suspicious object was unearthed a ...
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by 2nd Lt. Hope Cronin, 18th Wing Public Affairs 10/20/2011 - KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Government of Japan officials recently met with Kadena Air Base leadership to discuss the implications of 20 reported violations involving the use of foreign-made wireless products. These products, which include baby monitors, family service radios, and co ...
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From CNIC Public Affairs WASHINGTON – As Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast, Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) reminds Sailors, retirees and their families Aug. 26 about the “Navy Life” iPhone application (app) that provides emergency information regarding hurricane preparedness. The application, which was created by CNIC FF ...
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by Staff Sgt. Amanda Savannah 18th Wing Public Affairs, 8/1/2011 KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Imagine you are playing a game of basketball on base with your friends, when a teammate is tripped and falls to the floor. His ankle hurts when he puts weight on it, but it isn't swelling or discolored and he is otherwise uninjured. What do you do? ...
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YOKOTA, Japan 7/14/2011 Senior Airman Daniel Knowlton, a member of the 374th Civil Engineer Squadron barrier maintenance team, sets up an aircraft arresting barrier system at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 13, 2011. The system is used in the event of an emergency where a fighter or similar aircraft cannot stop on its own. (U.S. ...
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5/6/2011 By Cpl. Megan Angel , Marine Corps Bases Japan CAMP LESTER, Okinawa, Japan — U.S. military and local and national Japanese emergency response services conducted a bilateral field training exercise, where for the first time Japanese emergency response helicopters performed patient transports to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa April 27 ...
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By T.D. Flack , Erik Slavin , Travis Tritten, Stars and Stripes, March 19, 2011 TOKYO —The first flight carrying U.S. military family members out of Japan was expected to leave Yokota Air Base around 5 p.m. Saturday, and two hours before the flight, there were still seats available. Only 190 of the 230 seats had been taken as of 3 p.m., although base offic ...
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's nuclear safety agency raised the severity rating of the country's nuclear crisis Friday from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level international scale, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979. Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency, said Friday that the agency raised the rating of t ...
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