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Submit your photos for Welcome to the Pacific cover by Jan. 15

Have you ever dreamed about having your photo featured on the cover of a magazine?
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Speakin’ Korean: Winter Words

As with many cultures, family is of the utmost importance in Korea. Here are a few helpful words to impress your friends and family.
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Osan AB Winter Weather Preparation

Cold winters are expected at Osan Air Base, but many of Team Osan’s Airmen and their families came from a bit warmer climates. Check out the info below on how you can best prepare yourself and your family for what is to come this winter.
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Nostalgia-inducing holiday decor of yore

I can’t remember that my reading glasses are perched on my head, where I parked my car at the commissary or where I left my cup of coffee, but I have many vivid recollections of my childhood.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Pedro Tenorio
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AETC Learning Wi-Fi Service begins roll out across command

In an effort to expand learning opportunities for Airmen and enable training and education from any device, Air Education and Training Command has begun a project to install commercial wireless internet across the command called the AETC Learning Wi-Fi Service.
Lou Conter, 98, one of only three living survivors USS Arizona survivors, salutes during the Walk of Honor after a Dec. 7, 2019, ceremony at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial marking the surprise attack 78 years ago. WYATT OLSON/STARS AND STRIPES
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‘Hard act to follow’: Pearl Harbor veterans become rare gems as ranks thin 78 years after tragedy

An ever-thinning number of veterans who survived the attack on Oahu by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, attended Saturday’s ceremony here marking the 78th anniversary of the event that led America to enter World War II.
President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019. North Korea threatened Thursday, Dec. 5, to resume insults of Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using provocative language. SUSAN WALSH/AP
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North Korea announces 'very important test' at rocket launch site in ominous sign for 2020

North Korea said Sunday that it successfully conducted a “very important test” at a long-range rocket launch site, prompting President Donald Trump to warn that Kim Jong Un could lose “everything” if he acts aggressively.
Speaking before the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel during a Dec. 5 hearing on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffrey (left), Army Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald Place (second from left), director of the DHA, the service Surgeons General, and Joint Staff Surgeon outlined the necessity for the health care system to change in order to support warfighter readiness. (MHS photo)
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Changes to military health care system aimed at readiness

As the Department of Defense continues transitioning its military hospitals and clinics from the Army, Air Force, and Navy to the Defense Health Agency, its top medical leaders remain committed to providing the finest care possible to those in uniform, retirees, and their families.
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett provides testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2019. The committee examined privatized military housing for service members and their families. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne Clark)
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Senators frustrated by uneven pace addressing privatized housing problems

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett insisted to the Senate Armed Services Committee Dec. 3 that the service is moving aggressively to fix chronic problems with privatized housing while also acknowledging that the “Air Force owns part of the responsibility” for dangerous and unhealthy conditions.
Security stands guard outside the main gate at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. (AP)
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Sailor who killed two and himself at Hawaii shipyard reportedly faced minor discipline

The sailor who shot and killed two men and then himself Wednesday at a Hawaii naval shipyard had been disgruntled with his commanders, according to a media report.
Navy Capt. Tim Kinsella briefs members of the media following a shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. A U.S official told The Associated Press that the suspect was a Saudi aviation student, and that authorities are investigating whether the shooting was terrorism-related. (TONY GIBERSON/PENSACOLA NEWS JOURNAL/AP)
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Four dead in shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola; Gunman was Saudi air force officer, officials say

A member of the Saudi Arabian air force opened fire Friday morning in a classroom building at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., killing three and injuring several others, according to local and law enforcement officials.
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NORAD tracks Saint Nick around the world

It’s that time of the year and Santa Clause is busy getting ready to see all the children who have been good this year. Santa knows where those children are even if you and your family are stationed on faraway bases in the Pacific.
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Holiday swag: Think commissary for those perfect stocking stuffers

On your next trip to the commissary, remember you don’t need a stocking hung by the chimney with care to get some very practical stocking stuffer items that people will actually use.
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Osan enforces drone regulations

As a reminder for servicemembers and their families living on Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) on the installation is prohibited.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery speaks on Thursday at the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals. McCaffery announced to the nearly 2,000 conference attendees that he has asked the Military Health System's senior leadership to develop and codify a formal strategic framework to guide integrating and optimizing all MHS components to meet his vision. (MHS photo)
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McCaffery calls for military medical strategic framework for warfighting readiness

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery today called on the Military Health System to continue to “adapt and evolve” to deliver on the system’s mission to prepare a military medical force needed to meet current and future operational requirements.
Barclay Butler, Ph.D., MBA, assistant director of management at DHA, explains the market concept to an audience of active-duty and civilian conference attendees at the 2019 AMSUS Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, Dec. 4. (Photo by MHS Communications)
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Military hospital transformation – introducing the market construct

The Defense Health Agency launched the most significant change to the Military Health System in over three decades when in October it initiated the congressionally directed transfer of authority, direction, and control of military medical and dental facilities in the United States to DHA.