EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Just two weather forecasters from Misawa Air Base, Japan, were responsible for advising 100 pilots flying 86 aircraft and more than 1,500 personnel for the entirety of RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2.“It was intimidating at first,” said Senior Airman Joseph Goebel, a 35th...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The sound of jets ripping through the skies, munitions deploy with a loud boom echoing around the area. The words "target hit, confirmed" relay over pilot radios, and in the blink of an eye they veer off into the distance. This would never be possible without the precision...

CHITOSE AIR BASE, Japan -- For the first time Airmen across multiple career fields assigned to two of Japan’s most strategic northern air bases, whose area of operations stretches across northern Honshu and the island of Hokkaido, came together for the first of many bilateral career trainings...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The 35th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team collaborated with Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Tohoku EOD school instructors to conduct integrated training at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 2 and 3.Headquarters Air Force, Office of the...

KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Airmen with the 35th Fighter Wing, from Misawa Air Base, Japan, traveled to the 8th FW, at Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea, to continue operations while the Misawa AB runway undergoes repairs May 15.During this time armament technicians with the 35th and 8th...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Misawa Airmen with the 13th Fighter Squadron wrapped up a two-week, biannual joint training exercise on several military installations and training areas in Alaska, May 12.Northern Edge 2017 based much of its scenarios out of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, for its...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Approximately 130 Airmen and multiple F-16 Fighting Falcons departed Misawa Air Base, Japan, Feb. 7 and 8, to participate in Exercise COPE NORTH 2017 (CN17).CN17 is a multilateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise, originating here in 1978, now...

KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea -- Pilots with the 13th and 14th Fighter Squadrons, assigned to Misawa Air Base, swapped out temporary duty locations after a month spent at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, and Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, respectively, May 26, 2017.Due to routine flight...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- In their mid-20's, the F-16 Fighting Falcons at Misawa Air Base are older than most Airmen that maintain them. The paint on the jets recently reached its maximum service life and began to reverting back to its original form of a liquid, creating potential hazards...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Groups of pilots and mission coordinators jostle their eyes between a large screen and a map of the airspace during a mission planning brief with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a fellow Air Force Base out of Anchorage, Alaska, on June 12.After a training scenario...