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OSAN AIR BASE NEWS

  • Joint Hometown News Team set to visit Osan to record holiday greetings

    The Joint Holiday Hometown News Team will be here Sept. 17-18 to record holiday messages to be aired on commercial television and radio stations in the United States and U.S. territories. The holiday greetings will be recorded at the Turumi Lodge at the lodge pavilion. The team will record

  • Base of Preference requests can now be initiated online through vMPF

    Air Force Personnel Center officials have revamped the Voluntary Assignments Base of Preference Program to allow eligible enlisted members to initiate BOP requests online. Regular Air Force members from the rank of E-8 and below can now apply for Permanent Change of Station BOP, In-Place BOP, or

  • 51st MDG offers tips to help keep Osan flu free

    As the 2009 influenza season swiftly approaches, the 51st Medical Group answers questions and offers tips to help members of Team Osan remain healthy -- and ready to fight tonight. What is the flu, and how does it differ from the common cold? The flu is a contagious respiratory infection caused by

  • Biggest Loser comes to Osan

    With a new fitness program starting January 2010, Airmen from the 51st Medical Group are getting started with their preparation. By taking a popular television show and adapting it to a military lifestyle, the Airmen have created their own "Biggest Loser" competition. The 10-week competition

  • Osan's Airfield Damage Repair team exercises with Republic of Korea Air Force

    Airmen of the 51st Civil Engineer Squadron airfield damage repair team participated in a combined-rapid-runway-repair-training exercise August 19, with the Republic of Korea Air Force's 19th Tactical Fighter Wing and 91st Air Civil Engineer Group at Jungwon Air Base, Republic of Korea. "This is the

  • Holiday Greetings team to visit Osan

    An Army and Air Force Hometown News Service holiday greetings team will set up here from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 17-18 behind Turumi Lodge at the Lodge pavilion. The team will record individual 10 to 20-second greetings for the holiday season aimed at family and friends back home. Anyone with a

  • Symposium unites nurses in the Asia-Pacific region

    More than 200 Military Nurses from 14 Asian Pacific countries gathered at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the Third Annual Asian Pacific Military Nursing Symposium August 3-7. The U.S. military sent 45 Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard medical personnel to

  • 101 Critical Days of Summer: Motorcycle safety course could save a life

    "Why are you doing that?! You need to turn your head and look toward the turn! No! Not like that! Lean into it!!!" the Motorcycle Safety Instructor yelled. In my head I thought, "I am! Stop yelling at me!"   It was the second day of a 12-hour motorcycle safety class at Yongsan, and I was dog

  • Gen. North assumes command of Pacific Air Forces

    The command of Pacific Air Forces, celebrating 65 years of providing American airpower in the Pacific this month, was passed today from Gen. Howie Chandler to Gen. Gary North during a ceremony here on Freedom Tower Mall. General North assumed command after completing three and a half years of