Amerikaanse Herculessen

The official Friendship Festival 2026 patch has taken flight

The patch for the event’s 50th Anniversary was unveiled and affixed to Yokota’s flagship C-130J Super Hercules, marking the start of the countdown to this weekend’s Japanese-American Friendship Festival!

The design for this year’s official patch was created by Tomoko Hyatt in a base-wide competition and represents the celebration of longstanding friendship and partnership between Yokota Air Base and the local community.

Stay tuned this week for more Friendship Festival updates as the countdown continues!

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Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch

The U.S. has launched a large-scale search & evacuation operation for the crew of an F-15E Strike Eagle reportedly shot down this morning in western Iran. Massive assets involved: multiple HH-60G Pave Hawk CSAR helicopters, HC-130J Combat King II tankers, F-35 escorts, A-10 Warthogs for top cover, and MQ-9 Reapers. Situation developing rapidly.

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Lumpy bits and twirly bits at Mildenhall this morning 11.03.26.

A few of the transient MC-130Js departed today, including a couple of the ones with the Silent Knight nose lumpage radar upgrade. One of them subsequently trailed over head with some fabulous vortices off of the props.

credits Andrew McKelvey facebook