Thousands of Defense Department employees in Japan, unhappy that Congress trimmed their access to health care at military hospitals this year, turned out at a series of town halls to let the Pentagon hear their dissatisfaction.
In May 2020, Trevor Balint sought mental health care but was turned away because the COVID-19 pandemic had restricted access to health care on base, his mother-in-law said.
Days after the body of a Hubbard man was found at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, the base commander shared a video statement about the status of multiple death investigations there.
Trevor Balint, 34, of Hubbard, was found dead at the air base earlier this week after an extensive, two-week search. He’d been declared missing Feb. 1 when his wife, Britni Balint, of Brookfield, said he was last seen at 1:30 a.m. that night. His body ultimately was found in the same building as his apartment.
According to a video posted by Col. Andrew Campbell, 374th Airlift Wing Commander at the base, the discovery of Balint’s death was one of six on the base in 12 months.
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 19, 2021 YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – The commander of the largest U.S. military base in Tokyo has moved to assure residents they are safe after the body of a man who had been missing for 16 days was found in his own apartment building on the installation. “Over the past 12 months our base has experienced the deaths of six members,” Col. Andrew Campbell, who leads Yokota’s 374th Airlift Wing, said in a video message posted on the base’s official Facebook page Thursday evening. The most recent reported death was that of Trevor Balint, 34, of Hubbard, Ohio. Balint, the spouse of Defense Department computer programmer and analyst Britni Balint, disappeared Feb. 1, prompting a search of the base from the ground and the air. His body was found Tuesday morning in the eastside housing tower where the couple lived.