From the Archives
Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale
Just past midnight July 30, 1945, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck the USS Indianapolis with almost 1,200 people aboard.
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.
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?
About 50,000 service members in Japan ordered to maintain logs of personal interactions amid pandemic
Failure to maintain a log of daily personal contacts and interactions may result in charges under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice — failure to obey an order or regulation.
AFN Korea host lied about wife’s housing in U.S.
A former AFN radio DJ was sentenced here Saturday to two years in prison and a bad conduct discharge for bilking the Air Force out of more than $31,000 in housing allowance payments.
Former servicemembers work to ensure AFN viewers get a view of home
As a sergeant in Air Force radio communications 18 years ago, Mike Hill found limited television choices at Clark Air Base in the Philippines.