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  • Kadena celebrates chief selects

    18th Wing leadership congratulated Chief Master Sergeant selects throughout Kadena for promoting to the highest enlisted rank. Leaders must empower Airmen by providing clear intent, trust, delegation and resourcing to deliver new solutions to tough problems.

  • 5th Air Force command visits Kadena

    5th Air Force leadership attended the Kadena Special Olympics and visited various facilities on Kadena. During their visit, they spoke with volunteers, athletes, service members and facility managers to discuss operations and recognize service members for their hard work at Kadena.

  • 18 SFS Airmen battle for glory during Best Defender Challenge

    18th Security Forces competed during the Best Defender Challenge on December 8, 2023. The BDC timed event consisted of a nine-mile ruck around the perimeter of the base equipped with a 30-pound pack. The tasks in the challenge were designed to push Airmen out of their comfort zones, tackling problem

  • PAC WEASEL: Synergistic Readiness in Joint Bilateral Operations

    Team Misawa hosted the latest iteration of a PACIFIC WEASEL exercise over Draughon Range near Misawa Air Base, Japan, Dec 8, 2023. Scenarios were cultivated during the exercise in which hosted participants conducted mission planning and executed the simulated fight the following day over the course

  • Bilateral Tactics Exchange kicks off at Kadena

    Japan Aerial Self-Defense Force, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps Service members meet together at Kadena Air Base for the Okinawa Bilateral Tactics Exchange conference for a better understanding of the capabilities held by each others armed forces, as well as improving relations between the

  • The Philippines come to Kadena

    Members from the Philippine Air Force visited Kadena to learn about the base’s mission, aircraft and training facilities on December 5, 2023. The visit included tours around a F-15C Eagle, F-35A Lightning IIs, KC-135 Stratotanker, a HH-60G Pave Hawk and the Kadena Innovation Lab (a place of

  • Gundam 22: An Operation Christmas Drop Tribute

    Team Yokota Airmen, with the help of multinational partners, packaged, decorated, signed, and dedicated a bundle of humanitarian aid during Operation Christmas Drop 2023 in honor of the 353rd Special Operations Wing and 363rd Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing Airmen who tragically

  • Love from above, gratitude from below

    The Pacific Ocean is incomprehensibly vast. With islands speckling it as the largest ocean on Earth, it holds within its waters the Republic of Palau, home to 18 thousand people and 340 islands.