Kadena Base Bulletin, June 1

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Kadena pays respects during Memorial Day ceremony

Kadena Legal Office provides information on legal claims due to typhoon damage

Kadena personnel may be eligible to file a claim for personal property loss during Typhoon Songda. If you have damage, please take pictures and write down details to provide in substantiating your loss. Eligible claimants include Air Force active duty personnel (living on or off base), their

Sayonara to Team Kadena

In the summer of 1945 the Unites States and Japan were engaged in a bitter war that was raging on the island of Okinawa. My grandfather, Adam Reich was a U.S. Marine, and one of the thousands of military members that came ashore around the first of April 1945. A few weeks later he would leave on a

535th AS,13th AF and 18th AES execute life-saving MedEvac mission from American Samoa

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii- -- In the early hours of the morning on May 22, a C-17 from the 535th Airlift Squadron and medical crews from the 13th Air Force Surgeon General's office and 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, departed in a moment's notice for Pago Pago, American Samoa, to

New firing range ‘shoots down’ time, costs

The 18th Security Forces Squadron's newly-refurbished Combat Arms firing range is now loaded and ready as approximately 100 soon-to-deploy Airmen pass through the range each week.After a series of lengthy renovations to Kadena's old range, Airmen will no longer have to transfer from the security

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

JASDF General flies with 909th ARS

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,

Airmen test capabilities during LORE

'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,

The exercise contamination control center treats patients

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