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  • Smoke detectors save lives

    Whether awake or asleep, a properly installed and maintained smoke alarm is the only thing in one's home that can alert service members and their families of a fire 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to the National Fire Protection Association, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths stem

  • AAFES releases potentially compromised PII, account information at Kadena

    Kadena Security Forces and the Army & Air Force Exchange Service continue to investigate several names and five digits from credit card numbers that appeared on a social media website during the weekend. The posting on the social media website has been removed. There is no indication that the

  • History on Kadena: Quonset the Hut, last of its kind

    (Editor's note: This is the first article in a series about historical sites on Kadena Air Base.)History is everywhere. Nowhere is that more true than at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Shrines, landmarks and buildings of significance are scattered about, so unassuming people tend to walk or drive by them

  • 18th CONS prepares for fiscal 2013 closeout

    (Editor's note: This is the first article in a series about the 18th Contracting Squadron and fiscal year closeout.) 18th Contracting Squadron personnel are preparing for fiscal 2013 closeout. Annual closeout runs from Sept. 1 through Oct. 1, but 18th CONS personnel prepare in advance to work with

  • Kadena HH-60 helicopters, crews ready to resume flight

     Kadena Air Base hosted an information day for government officials, civic leaders and members of the media Aug. 14, ahead of resuming HH-60G flight operations Aug 16.The 18th Wing began an immediate stand down of the unit to conduct a thorough safety inspection as a result of the accident that

  • Kadena cleans up recycling policy

    With sequestration cutting budgets, and dwindling landfill space on Okinawa becoming more costly to utilize, Kadena Air Base is implementing a new recycling policy beginning Oct. The policy will make it mandatory for all refuse and recyclable materials on base and all military housing in Okinawa to

  • Team Kadena celebrates life of fallen Airman

    A memorial service in honor of Tech. Sgt. Mark Smith, 33rd Rescue Squadron, was held at Chapel One Aug. 13. Smith, a native of Bakersfield, Calif., was a flight engineer for an HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft while he was stationed on Kadena. He deployed to Afghanistan twice and contributed to several

  • 18th CES structures technicians apply metal working skills

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgts. Justin Reilly and Casey Wenningham, 18th Civil Engineer Squadron metal structural technicians, apply their craft of metal works to repair and maintain Kadena's buildings July 31. For more photos, view the slideshow.

  • Team Kadena mourns loss of downed helicopter crew member

    Officials confirmed today the death of a technical sergeant assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron here following Monday's crash of a helicopter in the Central Training Area, Okinawa. Tech. Sgt. Mark A. Smith, 33rd RQS flight engineer, died when the HH 60G Pave Hawk helicopter in which he was flying

  • IG initiates new inspection system

    This summer, the Air Force implemented the new Air Force Inspection System, or AFIS, which allows wings and installations to take a more active role in compliance and combat readiness. Since Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III implemented Program Action Directive 13-01 June 17,

  • Fluid mechanics maintain pressure, ensure mission safety

    No one member of a team is more essential than another; it takes everyone to ensure mission success. One vital member of the 18th Wing is the 18th Component Maintenance Squadron hydraulic backshop.The hydraulic backshop overhauls, repairs, adjusts and tests more than 64 hydraulic and/or pneudraulic