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  • Team Kadena welcomes new commanders

    Team Kadena would like to welcome the following new leaders that took command within the last week:U.S. Air Force Maj. Matthew McGuinness is now the commander of the 31st Rescue Squadron as of June 10. The 31st RQS trains, equips and employs combat-ready pararescue specialists. The pararescuemen are

  • Kadena honors National Flag Day

    The Air Force Sergeants Association hosted a National Flag Day ceremony in front of the 18th Wing headquarters here at 4:30 p.m. June 15.People across the U.S. celebrate National Flag Day June 14 each year to honor the U.S. flag and to commemorate the flag's adoption by resolution of the 2nd

  • Kadena to host Rockin' the Block, advises road closures

    The Schilling Community Center-sponsored event Rockin' the Block is scheduled for June 27 from 4-9:15 p.m. along Adams Avenue behind the Risner Fitness Center.Due to the event, service members, DoD-contracted civilians and Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement individuals are reminded that road

  • Kadena's Okinawa Outreach tackles tough volunteer project

    Volunteers with Okinawa Outreach pride themselves on their hard work and on the fact that no challenge is too big.The volunteers definitely surprised the man who lined up a recent project for them during a two-hour visit to an elderly care facility in Okinawa City May 30.  Katsuhiko Yamashiro,

  • USO Baby Shower delivers for Okinawa military community

    Nearly 200 women from the military community across Okinawa gathered in the Kadena Officer's Club earlier this month for Special Delivery Baby Showers, co-hosted by the USO and the What to Expect Foundation.Heidi Murkoff, author of the New York Times bestselling "What to Expect When You're

  • 200 Kadena Airmen selected for promotion to technical sergeant

    More than 200 of Kadena's promotion-eligible staff sergeants were selected to become technical sergeants following the Air Force Personnel Center's release Tuesday night.The Air Force selected 8,446 staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant, officials announced June 9. Selectees represent

  • Flag conditions on Okinawa

    On the sunny island of Okinawa, its inhabitants get to experience beaches, great hiking or even scuba diving.However, along with the beautiful scenery Okinawa is often home to flash floods, typhoons and what has been rising as the summer months take hold, the heat.To try and help keep the people of

  • Taking the Field

    Stadium lights silhouette a checkered ball as it flies through the air and rolls along a green field. Players in jerseys race up and down a field in pursuit. A player wearing a white jersey with the number nine on his back dribbles the ball.  The ball is passed to a teammate as he is challenged, he

  • Typhoon season begins

    On June 1, Kadena entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4, the default condition of readiness during typhoon season, which will last until November 30.Island residents experienced TCCOR 5 for the first time earlier this year, but this level of readiness is only used during the typhoon

  • 18th Dental Squadron keeps PACOM smiling

    KADENA AB, Japan - The Area Dental Lab here supports more than just Airmen and their families on Kadena; they support the entire Pacific Command.The second largest ADL, out of the three in the entire U.S. Air Force, belongs to the 18th Dental Squadron. Here, Airmen work diligently behind the scenes