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  • 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

  • U.S. Air Force humanitarian team set to depart for Indonesia

    A U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team is preparing to depart on two C-17 Globemaster IIIs out of Japan and Guam to provide disaster relief to Indonesia. Seventy-one Airmen, along with associated supplies and equipment, are scheduled to fly from Yokota Air Base, Japan, and

  • Hawaii Guardsmen assess damages in American Samoa

    Hawaii National Guard members assessed damages in the Pago Pago and Leone villages of American Samoa Oct. 1 after arriving to the tsunami-ravaged island after a C-17 Globemaster III flight from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. More than 30 active-duty Guard members split into two groups to conduct

  • Hawaii Air Guard doctor details American Samoa recovery effort

    Capt. Nathaniel Duff is a physician's assistant with the 154th Wing of the Hawaii Air National Guard based at Hickam Air Force Base. He is a member of the medical team embedded with the chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear and explosives enhanced response force package that was on the first

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