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  • Sunabe Baba Park safety concerns

    Sunabe Baba Park, located near the Seawall in Chatan Town, attracts children and teenagers from all over the island and members of the residents of Sunabe Ward have expressed concern for some of the children's safety.The park includes a skating park, dolphin-shaped playground, softball field and

  • Rescue Airmen engage hostile forces to retrieve 'Fallen Angels'

    -- Airmen from Bagram Airfield's 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron performed a daring mountainside rescue here, April 23, after an Army helicopter crashed in a hostile Afghan valley.The Airmen, deployed from the 33rd RQS at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and the 212th RQS at Joint Base

  • Aeolian Dust comes to Okinawa

    Soon, the air over parts of Okinawa may be thick with a gritty yellowish haze, reducing visibility and covering cars, laundry, and even people who venture outside in a layer of super fine dust. The Japan Meteorological Agency is predicting a significant occurrence of Aeolian dust to hit Okinawa over

  • Team Kadena 'cleans up' for Earth Week

    Service members and their families on Okinawa came together for Earth Week, April 17-24, to improve and preserve the island. Team Kadena celebrated Earth Week by raising environmental awareness through a variety of fun-filled events like a reusable bag giveaway, a beach clean-up, cherry blossom

  • Military spouses serve alongside service members

    Life changes for a service member at the raising of the right hand, taking an oath and signing on a dotted line.For the spouse of military member, their service begins the day they extend their left hand and say I do.Every day military spouses can be seen helping out in communities around the world.

  • Renewing drivers license on Kadena now easier

    The U.S. Forces Japan Instruction 31-205, Motor Vehicle Operations and Traffic Safety, has been updated to allow a one-time renewal of the USFJ Form 4EJ (Status of Forces Agreement driver's license) for those individuals with an expired state-side license. Specifically, the USFJ instruction states

  • 33rd RQS wins third straight "Jolly Green Rescue Mission of the Year"

    A split second after a two-man rescue team touched ground, the ear-shattering explosions of rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, rang out overhead. Capt. Koa Bailey and Master Sgt. Roger Sparks, a combat rescue officer and pararescueman from Alaska's 212th Rescue Squadron, rushed to triage

  • Kadena Base Bulletin, April 27

    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.

  • 18th LRS win Zenko Kai Award

    Members of the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron have been named the winners of the honorary Zenko Kai Award. An Award given to a group for good deeds done between March 2010 and March 2011. In an effort to reinforce the relationship between Team Kadena and the local community, Japanese and American

  • Team Kadena names quarterly award winners

    Congratulations to the 18th Wing and Team Kadena first quarter award winners. The Team Kadena award winners, consisting of nominees from the 18th Wing and Kadena partner units are: Honor Guard Airman: Senior Airman James A. Springer, 18th Medical Operations Squadron Honor Guard NCO: Staff Sgt.

  • 525th FS, Kadena Airmen break down barriers

    A group of F-22 Raptors, their pilots and maintainers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron "Bulldogs" deployed to Kadena earlier this year to test their capabilities in a new environment - setting records in the process.Now the last few jets are preparing to

  • Travel Limitation Policy Rescinded

    The limitations recently placed on leave and travel to mainland Japan after the recent earthquake and tsunami for 18th Wing personnel have been rescinded per Brig. Gen. Ken Wilsbach, 18th Wing commander. "We have seen a change in circumstances since that time and the US Government is now allowing

  • Kadena Base Bulletin, April 20

    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.

  • CrossFit Gym for Kadena set to open mid-summer

    This summer brings Shogun CrossFit to Kadena, a new CrossFit gym."We hope the gym will be operational by July 1,"said 1st Lt. Ashley Jensen, 372nd Training Squadron, Detachment 15 commander and CrossFit Instructor Level I. "The new facility will be located inside the Risner Fitness Center, across