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  • Everyday Hero

    KADENA AIR BASE, Japan – A sunny afternoon turned tragic when out of nowhere a car sped off a busy road landing nose-down, its velocity flipping it upside down before finally scraping to a halt off the side of the road.Senior Airman Ja’Mesha Pratt, 18th Operations Support Squadron airfield systems

  • That others may live

    The 33rd Helicopter Maintenance Unit recently completed a 300-hour inspection, one which is done for every 300 hours of flight, June 14.

  • Team Kadena Spotlight

    Takashi Seragaki, 18th Force Support Squadron cook, works at the Marshall Dining Facility, June 3, 2016, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. As a cook, Seragaki has been working at the DFAC for more than 23 years to serve Airmen and help them stay mission ready. (U.S. Air Force photo by Naoto Anazawa)

  • Services combat Hypoxia

    Imagine what it’s like to be a parachutist. Leaping into the wild blue yonder from an aircraft above 10,000 feet with a specific mission. All the while, there is an ever present, silent, insidious danger lurking; hypoxia.

  • AFSA Chapter 1553 partners with Promise Keepers assisting locals in need

    Kadena's Air Force Sergeants Association Chapter 1553 assisted a local non-profit organization, Promise Keepers, with an outreach project here June 2. Promise Keepers is part of the Two Fish Project, which is dedicated to ensuring families in poverty are cared for and motivationally encouraged. They

  • 18 LRS wins American Petroleum Institute award

    The 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron has won the prestigious American Petroleum Institute award.The API award has been a distinct honor among Air Force fuels management flights for 50 years.Recognizing individuals and groups as top performers has been a long standing developmental program in

  • Saluting the Colors: Kadena observes Memorial Day, honors the fallen

    Airmen, Soldiers, sailors and Marines gathered at Chapel 1 here May 30 for a Memorial Day ceremony to celebrate the lives of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country.It was a quiet event filled with respect and dignity, but Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, III

  • PAMACON preps Airmen to save lives

    More than 50 pairs of boots trampled through the mud May 20, as 18th Medical Group Airmen carried stretchers, tourniquets, bandages and other medical equipment through Kadena Air Bases' Area One for the Preventative Aerospace Medicine Convention, a first-of-its-kind field training exercise.The

  • Kadena Airmen selected for master sergeant

    Congratulations to more than 100 Team Kadena Airmen selected for promotion to the rank of master sergeant May 23.More than 3,800 technical sergeants across the Air Force were selected, representing 18.71 percent of the 20,528 eligible.The average score for those selected was 350.21. Selectees'

  • Kadena Airman explodes upward, becoming PACAF's NCO of the year

    A Kadena explosive ordinance Airman has been named Pacific Air Forces' NCO of the year.Staff Sgt. Aaron Keeter, 18th Civil Engineer Squadron NCO in charge of operations with the explosives ordinance disposal flight, was presented the award on May 11, 2016.From education and coaching youth football