Yamagata a fuel staging area

Airlift leadership and a joint team of U.S. Air Force and Marine search and rescume members prepare to board an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter from the 33rd Rescue Squadron March 13, 2011, Yokota Air Base, Japan. Yokota is receiving personnel, aircraft and supplies to support search and rescue efforts as requested by the government of Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

Emergency Response for Japan's Earthquake disaster

Members of the Los Angeles Search and Rescue team, Task Force 2 check in through a temporary customs facility at Misowa Air Force Base, Japan during an emergency response on March 13, 2011. Aircrew from the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash. are transporting members and equipment for Los Angeles Search and Rescue team to Japan to aid in recovery and care of victims of the recent earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sgt. Daniel St. Pierre)

Emergency Response for Japan's Earthquake disaster

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Rick Eld, Loadmaster with the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB Wash directs a forklift driver at Misowa Air Force Base, Japan during an emergency response on March 13, 2011. Aircrew from the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash. are transporting members and equipment for Los Angeles Search and Rescue team to Japan to aid in recovery and care of victims of the recent earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sgt. Daniel St. Pierre)

Emergency Response for Japan's Earthquake disaster

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class David Schmitz, Loadmaster with the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB Wash. loads spacers onto a pickup at Misowa Air Force Base, Japan during an emergency response on March 13, 2011. Aircrew from the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash. are transporting members and equipment for Los Angeles Search and Rescue team to Japan to aid in recovery and care of victims of the recent earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sgt. Daniel St. Pierre)

Generators installed at Misawa Inn

U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Aaron Cope, right, and Tech. Sgt. Danny Dottin, connect power cables to a generator at the Misawa Inn Mar. 14, 2011, Misawa Air Base, Japan. Misawa Air Base lost power after feeling the effects of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Sergeant Dottin and Airman Cope are assigned to the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron, generator maintenance shop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marie Brown\Released)

First fixed-wing aircraft since quake lands at Sendai Airport

An MC-130H Combat Talon II lands March 16, 2011 at Sendai Airport, Japan. This is the first fixed-wing aircraft to land at the airport since an earthquake and tsunami crippled much of the Japanese eastern seaboard March 11. A team of combat controllers from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, out of Kadena Air Base, Japan, along with Japanese emergency management organizations, cleared a section of the runway and re-established the control tower to direct flights in and out of the airfield. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)