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  • Pain is no match for defenders

    Getting hit in the face with oleoresin capsicum spray is much like crushing a handful of cayenne peppers into your eyes – if cayenne peppers hurt 100 times worse.This is what every security forces defender has to experience when they join the career field, and five more lucky souls got the chance

  • Corrosion Control

    Okinawa’s sub-tropical climate exposes airfield damage repair (ADR) assets to year-round rainfall, high humidity, thunderstorms and typhoons, placing Kadena in fourth place for the U.S. Air Force’s top bases for corrosive climates. With a $15 million ADR vehicle on the line, 18th Logistics

  • Answering the call

    KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Staff Sgt. Clifford Crawford, 31st Rescue Squadron pararescue element leader, won the 2016 Army Times Publishing Company's Air Force Service Member of the Year award. The award is presented to those who demonstrate a high level of professionalism, concern for fellow service

  • Building strategic partnerships

    Members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Ground Self-Defense Force toured the 353rd Special Operations Group here June 21, in order to create partnerships between military members from both nations.The JASDF and JGSDF officers started their day with a briefing on the mission and capabilities

  • Running full afterburner

    KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Many communities surrounding Kadena Air Base experience their share of F-15 Eagle engine noise, what some would call the sound of freedom, thankfully there is one area that quiets the powerful engine. The 18th Component Maintenance Squadron’s one of a kind Engine Test

  • Rigger Up!

    Beads of sweat run down his forehead as he squeezes out every last cubic millimeter of air from a parachute and folds it into a bag no larger than a basic tool box, checking each step to ensure strict compliance to safety standards.After several hours of assembly and safety checks, pararescuemen of

  • Around the Air Force: June 21

    In this look around the Air Force, Gen. David Goldfein testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on his nomination for Air Force chief of staff, and the new Blended Retirement System gives Airmen more retirement options.

  • 353rd SOMXS Maintainers keep the MC-130J Commando II flying

    Shaun Smith strapped himself to an anchor point inside his MC-130J Commando II cargo plane to observe in-flight refueling with an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter April, 2015, over the Philippine Sea.From the open cargo bay door, Smith watched Pave Hawk pilots skillfully maneuver their aircraft into

  • Air Force increases access to behavioral health care

    Nearly half of people with a treatable behavioral health disorder do not seek help from behavioral health professionals, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. However, 80 percent of this population does visit a primary care manager at least once a year. The Air Force

  • F-15 Eagle: Timeless airframe with modern capabilities

    For more than 40 years the F-15 Eagle has defended the skies with a track record of success unlike any other fighter jet in the history of aviation.While the airframe has been aging, generations of hard work from maintainers, engineers and pilots has kept the aircraft lethal, advanced and relevant

  • We can’t stop here, this is bat country

    The 44th Pursuit Squadron was activated in December, 1940, at Wheeler Field, Hawaii. Members of the 44th wouldn’t have to wait long to join the war effort. “Our first combat involvement was during the Pearl Harbor attack, and continued throughout the Pacific during World War II, eventually bringing