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  • 624th RSG families take care of homefront while loved ones are deployed

    Some of the Air Force's most important members have never packed their bags to deploy in support of a contingency operation, nor have they ever donned the uniform. Instead, their job is on the home front. They are military spouses and their contracts begin on their wedding day. The 624th Regional

  • 15th Airlift Wing brings relief to tsunami victims

    Eleven 15th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster IIIs carrying 157 passengers and 378.3 short tons of cargo provided humanitarian relief this week to American Samoa, neighboring Samoa and Tonga after the islands were stuck by a 15-foot tsunami, generated by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake Sept. 29. Teaming

  • Tsunami watch for Hawaii, Wake Island cancelled

    The National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii has been cancelled.The advisory, effective 12:17 p.m. HST, was issued when an earthquake occurred near the Vanuatu Islands with a preliminary 8.0 magnitude. Messages from the NWS Pacific Tsunami

  • Pacific Warning Center issues tsunami message

    The National Weather Service Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Ewa Beach, Hawaii, issued a tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii effective 12:17 p.m. HST An earthquake has occurred near the Vanuatu Islands with a preliminary 8.0 magnitude. The pacific tsunami warning center has issued an

  • PACAF Airmen deploy to Indonesia to help quake victims

    Airmen assigned to Pacific Air Forces left here and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Oct. 5 for Padang, Indonesia, to provide medical care to those affected by the recent 7.6-magnitude earthquake. The Airmen are part of an Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team that left on two C-17

  • Airman returns home, lends hand in tsunami relief

    Imagine driving to work on a nice sunny day and learning that your hometown has just been shaken by an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.9. Naturally, you would be little nervous because you would think of your family and friends. Sept. 29 was a harsh reality and not just the imagination of Tech.

  • Hickam Airmen promote during October

    The following enlisted Airmen at Hickam will sew on new stripes in October, according to the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. They were officially recognized for their achievement during the monthly promotion recognition ceremony at the Enlisted Club Sept. 30. Promoted

  • Hickam officials urge Airmen to ‘Stay Fire Smart! Don’t Get Burned’

    Once a child touches a hot stove -- as the cliché goes -- the child learns their lesson, stay away from a hot stove. However, this cliché does not take into account the pain and suffering from those burns, and burns should not be part of the learning process. That's why Hickam Fire and Emergency

  • Samoa relief winds down; efforts continue elsewhere

    As the U.S. military continues to provide assistance to victims of storms and earthquakes in the Philippines and Indonesia, tsunami relief operations in American Samoa are tapering off, a Defense Department spokesman said here Oct. 5. The humanitarian-relief operation in American Samoa "is

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