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  • New aircraft washing facility to be completed this summer

    Concerns of Okinawan residents living on the north side of Kadena Air Base will get a little relief as the aircraft wash rack, which has been in place since 1996, will get a new home in July. Base officials took action after local residents living near the current wash rack raised concerns about

  • Eagles, Falcons go head-to-head at Kadena

    Thousands of feet up in the air, an F-16 Falcon pilot gets a visual of an F-15 Eagle and the fight is on as the two high performance jet fighters engage in an air-to-air combat. This scene has played out repeatedly over the past two weeks as F-16 pilots from Kunsan Air Base, South Korea have taken

  • Air Force Assistance Fund campaign begins Monday

    Kadena Air Base residents have until April 27 to help raise more than $100,000 in contributions to a fund designed to assist Airmen in need. The 2008 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign begins Monday and organizers said the local goal for this year's campaign is $106,170. The annual campaign supports

  • PACAF drops weight limit entitlements

    Accompanied families arriving to Kadena Air Base will now be able to bring their full weight allowance for goods, due to a policy change that was implemented March 1. Pacific Air Forces initiated a study in 2006 that suggested allowing a 100 percent Joint Federal Travel Rate Regulation for weight

  • Team Kadena kicks off last exercise before ORI

    A simulated Kadena-based U.S Navy P-3 Orion aircraft crash kicked off Exercise Beverly High 08-4, Feb. 10. The "crash," which happened on base at 1 p.m. today, had Kadena firefighters responding quickly. "We arrived on scene and initiated incident command [center], then started fighting the fire,"

  • Navy trains with Kadena, sister service units

    A Naval Air Facility Atsugi-based helicopter squadron's temporary duty here is helping to improve readiness for the 18th Wing and sister service units. Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 14 came to Okinawa recently to conduct training not available at sea or its home station. In the process they are

  • Kadena’s Eagles back in business

    The F-15 Eagles are once again soaring through the skies of the Pacific maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific. After a two-month maintenance stand down, the 44th and 67th Fighter Squadrons are focused on getting their pilots back in the air and mission ready to conduct operations throughout

  • Postal officials offer holiday mailing tips

    'Tis the season to rush to the post office to send out holiday cards and packages. To make the holiday mailing experience smoother and quicker, the Kadena post office staff recently offered packaging tips and reminded people of mailing deadlines. While some deadlines have already passed, there are

  • 18th Wing shows its edge during Keen Sword

    Over the next two weeks, members of Team Kadena will be participating in the largest bi-lateral field training exercise in Japan, designed to practice defending Japan against foreign aggression. The goal of Exercise Keen Sword is to improve interoperability between the Japanese Air Self Defense

  • Post Office goes to A to B Concept

    Kadena's Post Office has a new system to speed up the process of receiving mail, tracking packages and in the future the system will be able to send out e-mail notifications to customers about picking up their packages. This new system is called the A to B Concept was installed Sept. 28 and consists

  • Financial Management Transformation

    A town hall meeting to discuss the biggest change to financial management in 60 years will be held Oct. 9 at the Keystone Theater here. Lt. Col. Steve Kennedy, 18th Comptroller Squadron commander, will host the meeting to inform community members about the upcoming changes that include centralizing

  • Seabees train with RED HORSE

    U.S. Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7 "crossed into the blue," working with U.S. Air Force personnel during a joint training exercise held Sept. 24 - 26 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. More than 87 personnel from NMCB 7 participated in the Rapid Runway Repair and utilities

  • Airmen make AFSO 21 successful

    The Air Force's top smart operations leader said Airmen and their ideas are critical to the success of the service's efforts to improve efficiency during a visit here Sept. 17. "Individual Airmen are incredibly important to the success of AFSO 21, said Dr. Ronald Ritter, special assistant to the

  • Colonel Kennedy bids farewell to Kadena

    The first time he came to Kadena he set a world distance record in the KC-135. Years later he culminated a career of more than 26 years upon retiring as vice commander of the Air Force's largest combat wing. Both are among the most memorable moments in Col. Jeff Kennedy's long odyssey from a Navy

  • 18 MDG Change of Command

    A new commander took the reins of the largest outpatient clinic in Pacific Air Forces in a ceremony here June 22. Col. Frederick L. Schaefer took command of the 18th Medical group from Col. Kelley Kash, who retired the same day after 23 years in service. "It's truly an honor to be taking command of