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  • 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

  • Kadena prepares for bug season

    (Editor's note: This is the first article of a series of articles about summer pests and rodents on Okinawa.)As the summer months creep up on Okinawa, insects and other pests make their way out of their hibernating areas and into the community.Warmer weather brings more outside activity within the

  • Team Kadena inducts new NCOs

    Team Kadena welcomed newly promoted staff sergeants to the NCO tier during an induction ceremony at the Rocker NCO Club May 8.Col. Jeffrey Ullmann, 18th Mission Support Group commander and Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez, 18th Wing command chief, hosted the ceremony as part of an all-day seminar

  • AF officials: Sexual assault has no place in the Air Force

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A Welsh III presented the service's fiscal 2014 budget request to the Senate Armed Services Committee May 7, but much of the discussion focused on the recent sexual battery allegations involving Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski,