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  • Rain Fails to Dampen Spirits at 43rd Frostbite Road Race

    Team Yokota hosted the 43rd Annual Frostbite Road Race, featuring three different race routes that spanned across Yokota Air Base, Jan. 21. The event has grown into one of the most popular road races held in Japan since its 1981 inception. This year, approximately 10,000 participants, both Japanese

  • 5th AF holds Commander’s Conference at Kadena

    The Commanders Conference brought together leadership teams across affiliated installations to receive 5ht AF guidance, provide feedback, and situation awareness up the chain, and shared challenges and opportunities. The visit also provided U.S. Air Force leadership with a forum to discuss military

  • Hot-pit refueling with 67th AMU and 18th LRS

    Hot-pit refueling uses a single-point refuel pump, allowing an aircraft to be refueled immediately after landing, with the engine running. Through innovative concepts such as hot-pitting, Kadena Airmen are further strengthening the Pacific Air Forces’ ability to generate and sustain combat airpower

  • Keeping Relationships Strong

    From festivals to volunteering, base personnel try to get out and interact with the local community as much as possible, maintaining a bond the 35th Fighter Wing holds paramount. This year the base chapel took volunteering a step further by chaperoning a children’s care facility onto base for an

  • Kadena weapons teams compete for the best

    The load competition graded Airmen from the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 356th FGS, 18th AMXS and the 159th FGS on a variety of competencies including safety, appearance, speed, knowledge and accuracy. Weapons load competitions test a squadron’s ability to safely and accurately load munitions

  • DFAS Japan welcomes new leadership

    Kristina Krebs assumed leadership of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Japan from Todd Hansen at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 17. Audrey Davis, DFAS director, presided over the ceremony.The DFAS provides Department of Defense (DoD) decision makers with business intelligence, finance

  • On the Edge of Life and Death

    Recently Senior Airman Ethan Embrey, 35th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, was awarded the Pacific Air Forces Senior Master Sergeant Robert A. McAllister Award for Firefighter Heroism at the Pacific Air Forces level for his life saving actions during the COPE North exercise at Tinian Island,

  • 459th Airlift Squadron Changes Command

    Lt. Col. Samuel Shamburg assumed command of the 459th Airlift Squadron from Lt. Col. Joseph Walters during a change of command ceremony at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 11.The 459th Airlift Squadron maintains a forward presence in the Pacific and provides responsive airlift support for distinguished

  • Kadena hosts MLK Speech Competition

    U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Winsome Culley, Force Support Squadron Career Assistance Advisor, informs the judges on the rules of the Kadena Air Base Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Competition and how the scoring and time system will work at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 10, 2024. Martin

  • 909th ARS keeps the Marines flying

    A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet pulls away from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker from Kadena Air Base after refueling over the Pacific Jan. 3, 2024. Conducting joint operations enhances the lethality and readiness of U.S. forces and its ability to project superior airpower to the Indo-Pacific