By Col. Van A. Wimmer, Jr.  35th Fighter Wing vice commander 4/29/2011 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- In the days since the historic Japan earthquake of 11 March 2011, much concern has been expressed by the family members of Airmen, Sailors and Soldiers stationed at Misawa Air Base. The purpose of this letter is to assure our family members i ...

By Staff Sgt. Marie Brown, 35 FW/PA, 4/29/2011 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airmen and Sailors participated in the 35th Fighter Wing annual foreign object damage walk at Misawa Air Base airfield April 29. More than 1,300 Airmen and Sailors gathered to collect an estimated 140 pounds of foreign objects, trash and debris. The focus of the FOD walk is to ...

By Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, 5/2/2011 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- In an effort to help track the movement of seawater along northeastern Honshu, members of the 36th Airlift Squadron, in coordination with the Government of Japan, dropped seven Davis Drifter buoys off the coast of Japan April 29. The buoys w ...

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (NNS) – Osama bin Laden received a Muslim ceremony as he was buried at sea, a senior defense official said in Washington, D.C., May 2. The religious rites were performed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the North Arabian Sea and occurred within 24 hours of the terroris ...

The Associated Press, Monday May 2, 2011 21:26:04 EDT WASHINGTON — From halfway around the world, President Obama and his national security team monitored the strike on Osama bin Laden’s compound in real time, watching and listening to the firefight that killed the terrorist leader. Gathered in the White House Situation Room, members of the group held thei ...

By Kimberly Dozier - The Associated Press, Monday May 2, 2011 23:10:33 EDT WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death in a ripped-from-a-spy-thriller helicopter raid and firefight gives a storied unit of U.S. special operations forces bragging rights for what has become the most famous covert operation since the Sept. 11 attacks launched on bin Laden’s orders. T ...

By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer, Monday May 2, 2011 13:27:09 EDT While most Americans slept Sunday night, a quiet at-sea burial ceremony took place for Osama bin Laden aboard the Navy carrier Carl Vinson off the coast of Pakistan. Bin Laden’s body was dumped into the water off the northern Arabian Sea after an Islamic ritual that included the ceremonial ...

By Staff Sgt. Rachel Martinez 35th Fighter Wing public Affairs, 5/1/2011 MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck northern Japan the Misawa Helps volunteer program has been assisting nearby communities recover from the devastation. Much of the volunteer work has consisted of cleaning up debris from affected areas, bu ...