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  • 18th Wing legal office offers group pre-marriage briefings

    "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark"Excerpt from Sonnet CXVI: Let me

  • Kadena ALS Class 13-D graduates

    Airman Leadership School Class 13-D graduated May 17 at the Rocker NCO Club on Kadena Air Base, Japan. Congratulations to the following graduates of Airman Leadership School Class 13-D:John L. Levitow Award-Senior Airman Stephen Holt, 18th Maintenance Operations Squadron Distinguished

  • Successful 2013 AFAF campaign across Kadena, AF

    Kadena's 2013 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign ran February through May and closed with a total of $179,126, after surpassing the desired goal of $118,534.When the campaign concluded, only 21.1 percent of Kadena's Air Force personnel had participated, yet the raised donations had exceeded the set

  • Team Kadena announces 2013 CCAF graduation

    The Kadena Education Office and Top 3 have teamed up to present the Kadena Air Base 2013 Community College of the Air Force graduation ceremony. The event will take place May 22 at 2 p.m. at the Keystone Theater. A reception will immediately follow the ceremony at the Schilling Community Center

  • Batcats welcome new commander

    Members across Team Kadena joined the 353rd Special Operations Group to welcome a new leader.Lt. Col. Ben Maitre assumed command of the 353rd SOG during a ceremony held here May 10. Maj. Gen. George Williams, Air Force Special Operations Command vice commander, highlighted the group's recent

  • Hagel announces fewer furlough days for DOD employees

    After weeks of review, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded budget cuts will require most of the department's civilian employees to be furloughed beginning in July, but that because of other efforts to deal with the shortfall, only half of the 22 days originally envisioned as temporary

  • Okinawa off-base residents encouraged to complete OHA survey

    Okinawa service members and spouses living off base are highly encouraged to participate in the 2013 Overseas Housing Allowance Utility and Recurring Maintenance Survey from now until May 31.The survey is available at http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/oha-util-may.cfm. This survey is used to

  • Kadena Base Bulletin, May 15

    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

  • Kadena legal, TRICARE offices offer tips for safe, stress-free travel

    "Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose." Excerpt from Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman.Summer will soon be upon us and Airmen in Okinawa possess a unique advantage and opportunity to travel

  • Kadena welcomes new 18th Wing commander

    Brig. Gen. James B. Hecker assumed command of the 18th Wing during a change of command ceremony at Kadena Air Base, Japan, May 13.Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella, U.S. Forces, Japan, and 5th Air Force commander, presided over the event held inside Kadena's Airborne Warning and Control System hangar

  • Mrs. Petraeus educates Kadena on CFPB

    Service members and their families here recently learned about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its resources available to them from the bureau's assistant director. Holly Petraeus, CFPB assistant director and head of the office of service member affairs, recently visited Kadena to