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U.S. Air Force

Joanya Tafua holding the American Samoa flag
Joanya Tafua of Pago Pago and Nuuuli has now completed the first phase of her service with Basic Millitary Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX. Her MOS is Aviation Resource Management and she will continue her Advanced Individual Training in Mississippi for the next 5 months.  ...
Chief Master Sergeant Jacinta Migo cutting her cake
Hurlburt Field, FLORIDA — On Feb. 1, the 505th Test & Training Group hosted a historic first, Senior Master Sergeant Jacinta Migo, became the first American Samoan woman to be promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. The family and colleagues of Migo watched live and...
A U.S. Air Force plane on the ground in Antarctica
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerned with exposing American Samoa to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga denied the landing and overnighting in American Samoa this past week of the US military crew heading to Antarctica to support Operation Deep Freeze. “I regret to inform you...
2nd LT Hanyoun Ao Jeong stepping into the cockpit of a jet airplane
Wichita Falls, TEXAS — 2nd LT Hanyoun Ao Jeong earned his pilot wings from the Euro NATO Joint Jet pilot training (Enjjpt) at Sheppard Air Force Base (AFB) in Wichita Falls, Texas where he flew the T-6 Texan and T-38 Talon. He will be flying the B-52 bomber out of Barksdale Air Force Base,...