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  • Green Dot training aims to decrease interpersonal violence

    A new interpersonal violence prevention program has arrived to Kadena.The program, Green Dot, focuses on preventing acts of interpersonal violence, such as dating and domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault."Green Dot represents the first time the Air Force has taken a grass roots approach

  • Shatter the silence: Take Back the Night

    Traffic rolls to a stop as yelling can be heard from down the street. A fire truck flashes lights and honks its horn followed by the wail of a siren from the police car behind it. A voice from the vehicle intercom shouts something and the men and women, following shoulder-to-shoulder echo the words

  • Air Force officials name SARC of the year

    An Air Force captain earned the service's 2015 Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator Award during a ceremony April 28 at the Pentagon.Capt. Elizabeth Belleau, a behavioral scientist, earned the award for her work both as the SARC at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and while deployed as the SARC

  • Kadena Air Base unites together to Take Back the Night

    Voices shatter the silence of the night. The sharp piercing sound of cowbells and clappers echoes through the streets. A voice booms over the loudspeaker of a patrol car as marchers are illuminated by headlights and streetlights. Signs held proudly, they chant."Yes means yes! No means no! However we

  • Kadena airman found guilty of statutory rape

    A Kadena-based Airman was sentenced Sept. 19 to 30 months of confinement, reduction to E-1, and a dishonorable discharge after being found guilty of statutory rape at a general court-martial.Airman 1st Class Donald R.B. Simmons was charged with the statutory rape of the 14-year-old daughter of an