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  • Sequestration impacts ripple across Air Force

    Air Force senior leaders issued updated guidance to leaders of Air Force major commands and addressed the service's Airmen last week on how the service will operate under sequestration and a continuing resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year.Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Jamie

  • Air Commandos remember STRAY 59

    No matter how painful it is to remember or how easy it is to forget, one special operations squadron makes it a priority each year to remember its heritage and to honor those before its members now who paid the ultimate sacrifice. As an annual salute to their fallen comrades, a crew from the 1st

  • CAPEX tests ammo ammunition ability

    The 18th Munitions Squadron participated in a week-long Pacific Air Forces' Combat Ammunition Production Exercise March 4-8.Tech. Sgt Scott Layne, 18th MUNS NCO in charge of the commander support staff, said because Kadena is an air-to-air fighter aircraft base and does not build bombs, the exercise

  • Kadena Base Bulletin, March 6

    Kadena Base Bulletin, March 6To 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

  • Working at Okuma: busy beach life

    Nestled on serene beach-front property on the East China Sea stands the 18th Force Support Squadron Okuma Recreation Facility."There's an idea in people's heads that when people are stationed at Okuma, they're not working hard," said Tech. Sgt. Douglas Caldwell, Okuma independent medical

  • U.S. forces, Japan blow exercise out of water

    The flames roared high off the aircraft and smoke floated in the breeze as firefighters and police personnel from across Okinawa worked together to contain and extinguish a fire during a joint-field bilateral training exercise Feb. 26.Staff Sgt. Andrew Kehl, 18th Civil Engineer Squadron fire

  • 18th Wing legal office helps newlyweds navigate immigration requirements

    The wedding bells have rung and you and your new foreign national spouse are enjoying married life in Japan while awaiting permanent change of station orders to the United States. If an immigrant visa is not obtained prior to your PCS date, this wedding bliss will soon be interrupted. Without an

  • Vampire Bats named Air Force's top air superiority squadron

    Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Pacific Air Forces commander, recently announced Kadena's 44th Fighter Squadron "Vampire Bats" as the winner of the Raytheon Trophy for 2012.Awarded annually since 1953, the Raytheon trophy is awarded to the top air-superiority or air-defense squadron in the Air Force. Units

  • 18th Wing Public Affairs earns PACAF Communication Excellence, Media awards

    18th Wing Public Affairs was recently awarded four 2012 Pacific Air Forces Communication Excellence awards and two PACAF Media Contest awards.Two of the PACAF Communication Excellence awards and one of the Media Contest awards recognized programs and initiatives run by the entire office.The team