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Oct. 4, 2021

Medical Equipment and Ingenuity Saves Sorties

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command website — Fighter aircraft don’t usually need medical assistance, but when they do it requires innovation and teamwork.

Man in uniform looking at boxes in a warehouse

Feb. 12, 2021

Materiel Management Flight: Supplying the Mission

Misawa Air Base, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Misawa Air Base conducts daily mission essential air combat training and members from the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) Materiel Management Flight work behind the scenes to ensure base personnel have mission required equipment.

Dec. 17, 2020

Federal Energy and Water Management Awards

WASHINGTON — For the fifth consecutive year, DLA Energy employees earned Federal Energy and Water Management Awards for their contributions to energy and water efficiency and resilience within the federal government.

U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel push a supply pallet together into a loading truck at Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 25, 2019. The supply pallets included both U.S. Air Force and JASDF supplies for exercise RED FLAG-Alaska 19-2 exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Branden Yamada)

July 2, 2019

U.S., Japan logistics team equip Misawa forces for RED FLAG-Alaska 19-2

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Reserve Citizen Airmen from the U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force logistics team members came together to load supplies and prepare for RED FLAG-Alaska 19-2 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 27 to 31.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Michael Yingling, left, a 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron customer service technician, places a bucket of tools on the ground with Tech. Sgt. Garrett Dicus, right, the 35th LRS multipurpose maintenance section chief, during the first LRS agile combat employment exercise at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 20, 2019. The ACE concept tests Airmen’s ability to demonstrate advanced readiness and forward thinking while responding to an unexpected contingency operation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Collette Brooks)

April 2, 2019

Misawa logistics mechanics conduct their first combat readiness exercise

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — The 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron conducted their first agile combat employment exercise at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 20.

Feb. 6, 2019

Increasing energy resiliency in Japan

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Defense Logistics Agency Energy awarded Misawa Air Base, Japan’s first energy savings performance contract Dec. 20, 2018.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jaceb Brammer, a 35th Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance journeyman, inspects an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 24, 2018. Without this repair, the aircraft would’ve been decommissioned indefinitely until the state-side depot allocated a slot in the next fiscal year. The restoration not only required outside-the-box thinking, but high levels of maintenance competency and skill. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Collette Brooks)

Sept. 17, 2018

35 MXS fabrication flight repair makes U.S. Air Force history

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Three Airmen with the 35th Maintenance Squadron fabrication flight performed a depot-level repair on an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft at Misawa Air Base, Japan, in August this year.

April 12, 2018

35th LRS Fuels Airmen upgrade F-16 quick launch, recovery capability

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Airmen with the 35th Fighter Wing and local Japanese contractors worked together to upgrade Misawa’s hot pit refuel capabilities March 20, enhancing the wing’s quick launch and recovery mission.

Air Force Senior Airman Taryn Mendoza, right, prepares a syringe at Misawa Air Base, Japan. DLA Troop Support’s Medical supply chain provides more than 25,000 pharmaceuticals to military healthcare providers around the world. Mendoza is a medical technician with the 35th Medical Operations Squadron.

Sept. 1, 2017

Saving Lives: DLA ensures military gets meds in emergencies

PHILADELPHIA — Lorinda Ferraiolo isn't a doctor or a nurse. But when there was a life-or-death medical emergency at an Air Force base in Japan, she got the urgent message.

Aug. 22, 2017

'You got served': Misawa dining facility fuels exercise Northern Viper

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Misawa Air Base website — Pots clang, oven doors whip open and hot air and steam fill the air while small two-inch music speakers attempt to drown out the loud reminders of hard work.The dining facility is operating at more than 200 percent capacity at Misawa Air Base, Japan.

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