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  • Wild Weasel of the Week: Amn Vanessa Gonzalez

    Each week a member of the 35th Fighter Wing is selected as the Wild Weasel of the Week. This individual is recognized based on superior performance, outstanding work ethic, and overall good conduct and discipline. The 13th Aircraft Maintenance Unit chose Amn Vanessa Gonzalez, a scheduler, to be

  • Medical personnel stay ready for the real deal

    Medical facility personnel arrive for another day on the job and prepare for the day’s workload. Immediately a voice over the intercom sounds off, “Code blue! Code blue! Code blue!,” alerting all staff a patient has collapsed from a heart attack and requires immediate attention.When a 35th Medical

  • US, Thai relationship rekindled during COBRA GOLD 17

    Cobra Gold is a Thailand and United States co-sponsored Combined Task Force and joint theater security cooperation exercise conducted annually in the Kingdom of Thailand. CG17 kicked off Feb. 14 and will close out on Feb. 24 with up to 29 nations participating.

  • COPE NORTH 2017 set to strengthen multilateral partnerships in Pacific

    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 is a multilateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise, originating here in 1978, now conducted annually at Andersen Air

  • Wild Weasel of the Week: SrA Trentyn Tavares

    Each week a member of the 35th Fighter Wing is selected as the Wild Weasel of the Week. This individual is recognized based on superior performance, outstanding work ethic, and overall good conduct and discipline. The 35th Aerospace Medicine Squadron chose Senior Airman Trentyn Tavares, a Labor and

  • Misawa Airmen bond during chapel resiliency retreat

    Some shifts are packed full of stress and some never seem to end; Airmen are accustomed to coming home drained and exhausted.That’s when the 35th Fighter Wing chaplain corps steps in to give the Nation's heroes an opportunity to rest on the four resiliency pillars.Last Saturday, Jan. 28-29, the

  • EOD tech diffuses deadly encounter, receives silver star

    Editor's note: The following story has been updated highlighting the award of the silver star for this retired Airman, a true American hero.Upon arriving at Forward Operating Base Spin Boldak for his fourth deployment in May 2014, the arid Afghan desert heat and blinding dunes of sand struck a