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Sno-Kota

Posted 29 February 2012
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Photo by Yasuo Osakabe

US Airmen with the 374th Security Forces Squadron patrol the taxiway in front of one of the 36th Airlift Squadron's C-130Hs during a snowstorm at Yokota AB, Japan, on 29 February 2012. Eight and one-half inches of snow fell on the base during a fifteen hour period, resulting in base leadership having to call out the plows to clear the runway, taxiways, and roadways.

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