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  • Kadena legal office offers typhoon preparation advice

    Typhoons can cause a lot of damage on Okinawa. Below are some tips on how to minimize property damage and document loss for claims. - Sheds, trampolines, swing sets, etc: These items must be properly secured. Placing sandbags on the top and tying rope around the walls of sheds will likely keep the

  • NCO retraining program application window open

    Staff sergeant-selects through master sergeants in overage career fields can apply for retraining into an undermanned career field during Phase I of the fiscal 2014 Noncommissioned Officer Retraining Program. Retraining applications will be accepted June 4-July 8.The two-phase program is used to

  • Online commissary survey available through Aug. 1

    Whether you shop at your local commissary or not, the Defense Commissary Agency wants to hear from you.From June 1 through Aug. 1, an online survey will be available on www.commissaries.com by clicking on the "take our survey" link."We're asking for input from our regular shoppers, occasional

  • Kadena command chief one of 15 'Eagles' at ACSC

    Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez, command chief for the 18th Wing, Kadena Air Base, Japan, is one of 15 "Eagles" who are sharing their military experiences and stories to several hundred Air Command and Staff College students during the school's annual Gathering of Eagles week June 4-7.The GoE is

  • Kadena library joins 'Have Book - Will Travel' summer reading program

    Registration opens here June 10 for a summer reading program open to military families everywhere.The program's theme is "Have Book - Will Travel!" "Last summer the program set a new reading record: more than 13.2 million minutes spent reading," said Belinda Pugh, Kadena librarian. "Each year the

  • Kadena Base Bulletin, June 5

    To submit an announcement for the base bulletin, email a completed bulletin form to: kadena.basebulletin@kadena.af.mil. Announcements typically run for two weeks beginning two weeks prior to an event. Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. Monday to be included in the weekly bulletin email sent on

  • Sexual assault is a 'cancer,' Welsh says

    The Air Force chief of staff testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee along with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and service chiefs from the Army, Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard on pending legislation regarding sexual assaults in the military June 4.Gen. Mark A. Welsh

  • Tips on financing college education

    Defense Department officials encourage parents and students to consider various strategies for financing college education, the director of the Pentagon's office of family policy and children and youth said.In a recent interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel, Barbara

  • 2013 PMC joins bodybuilders, award winners

    More than 40 bodybuilders recently participated in the 2013 Pacific Muscle Classic at the Keystone Theater on Kadena. Congratulations to the following winners:Female figure competitors 5 feet 4 inches and under:1st Place: #4, Amber Dunford2nd Place: #5, Tiffany Casali3rd Place: #7, Hazel