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U.S. military sent 3 N-teams to offer help /snip After its deployment to Japan, the AFRAT checked radiation levels at places that included Sendai Airport, which was heavily damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to secure the safety of U.S. military personnel. The AFRAT is now on standby at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, which hosts the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan. The Army's Area Medical Laboratory (AML), whose mission is to assess chemical, biological and nuclear hazards, was also dispatched to Japan in late March. It conducted surveys of radioactive contamination and returned to the United States....