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  • Kadena Base Bulletin, May 25

    To submit an announcement for the base bulletin, please email a short paragraph (NOT bullets or attachments) containing essential information (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to kadena.basebulletin@kadena.af.mil. Announcements typically run for two weeks beginning two weeks prior to an event.

  • Wing Safety kicks off "Critical Days of Summer" campaign

    The "Critical Days of Summer" safety campaign officially kicks off May 27, Memorial Day weekend, and ends after Labor Day weekend, September 6.This is historically the period where we lose more Airmen to preventable mishaps than any other time of the year.Most of the mishaps occur during off-duty

  • NDI inspects to save lives

    Using inspections is the Air Force's primary tool to ensure that its equipment and personnel are ready at a moment's notice.However, what separates the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron's Nondestructive Inspection Flight is their innate ability to locate cracks in the structural components of an

  • Okinawa Veterinary Treatment Facility hosts leash cutting ceremony

    The remodeled Okinawa Veterinary Treatment Facility held an official leash cutting ceremony at their original location, on Kadena Air Base, May 18. The original building started life as a warehouse in 1962 and split use between Army Veterinary Services and Air Force Public Health.Maj. Kent Vince,

  • 'Victims' bring reality to LORE

    Team Kadena has been participating in Beverly High 11-4, a "fight the base" local operational readiness exercise, this week, where participants had to ward off numerous attack scenarios. But while Airmen on the base faced everything from simulated mortar incidents, rocket-propelled grenade events,

  • Marine Corps 'Devil Dogs' train with RED HORSE Airmen

    As the Department of Defense moves towards more judicious fiscal spending, Kadena's 554th RED HORSE Squadron partnered with Engineer Operations Company Marines from Camp Foster's Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, battling budget woes by conducting joint training at Kadena's Silver Flag site.The

  • AFSO21 saves Kadena millions in parts, energy bills

    In the past, Kadena's Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration shop has had to replace large, outdoor, energy-wasting chiller units for buildings' AC systems on military installations across the island nearly every three years.However, because of the tropical climate of Okinawa, it

  • KARC reaches $100,000 in relief donations

    Since the devastating earthquake and following tsunami struck the island of Honshu, Japan (commonly referred to as mainland Japan), March 11, service members and their spouses at Kadena have been working tirelessly to accumulate donations for the victims.Thanks to their efforts, in little more than

  • Kadena "plays" hard

    In an instant, a gunman bursts through the office door opening fire on an unexpecting Airman close by.Despite the chaos that has consumed the building in a conflagration of bullets and screams, the wounded Airman is relying on his wingmen to save his life. This is only one type of scenario Emergency

  • LORE scenarios keep Airmen battle ready

    Kadena is participating in Beverly High 11-4, a local operational readiness exercise, this week which shifts gears for Kadena and focuses on training Airmen for possible emergency situations.During each LORE different scenarios are enacted to build the skills Airmen need if they encounter a