Historic Events | 80th Anniversary

The bullet-riddled truck in which four United Nations Command soldiers — two Americans and two South Koreans — were killed in an ambush at the Korean DMZ in April, 1968.

DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive

Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."

Department of Defense Education Activity-Pacific West has assigned students in South Korea to specific seats on their buses, according to a letter posted to Humphreys High School’s Facebook page on Nov. 10, 2021.

DODEA assigns school bus seats to students in South Korea as coronavirus precaution

Department of Defense Education Activity-Pacific West announced the policy, which took effect Monday, in a Nov. 10 letter posted on Humphreys High School’s Facebook page. Assigning students to specific seats would facilitate contact tracing in the event a student contracted COVID-19, the coronavirus respiratory disease.

AFN upgrade to give Zama better reception, more channels

A half-million-dollar overhaul to the system that provides AFN to Army televisions in Japan will give viewers at Camp Zama and its housing areas access to new channels and radio stations and improved quality and reception.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Garzone was featured as the wisecracking undesignated airman in the PBS documentary “Carrier.” He's now the morning deejay for Eagle 810.

Yokota petty officer adding a little light humor to PBS documentary

It’s just a few minutes before 10 a.m. at Yokota Air Base, Japan, and while many U.S. servicemembers are sipping their first cup of coffee, Eagle 810 radio disc jockey Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Garzone has spent the last four hours rousing his audience with his humorous, fast-talking on-air antics.

Kiri Peterson, her family and friends have been serving desserts to hundreds of people at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, each week through Operation Cake for Quarantine.

Young baker’s ‘cake cups’ brighten coronavirus quarantine for thousands in South Korea

Over her summer break from school, Kiri Peterson, 16, began making cake parfaits for troops and their families serving out their mandatory two-week coronavirus quarantine at Camp Humphreys.

Airline workers help a passenger at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Nov. 10, 2021.

US military moves to make pandemic travel easier for troops based in Japan

U.S. Forces Japan announced new options to make travel easier for vaccinated service members, Defense Department employees and their families.

This time, the focus is on Frank, not Sly

The commercials on AFN’s Eagle 810 radio station are sometimes baffling, but I’m even more puzzled by the recurring "Frank Stallone Friday." Who’s Frank Stallone? Why Friday? What’s up with that?