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  • Getting the Cargo Downrange

    Just like Airmen, equipment on aircraft heading downrange must go through processing lines and be properly documented and prepared. The 733rd Air Mobility Squadron joint inspection team is there to ensure this happens. Along with 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron's Cargo Deployment Facility, the

  • Valiant Shield wraps up

    Valiant Shield 2007, the largest exercise of its kind in the Pacific, wrapped up seven days of flying operations in the vicinity of Guam Monday. During the field training exercise, more than 30 air-refueling sorties were flown, with KC-135 and KC-10 tankers offloading 2.286 million pounds of fuel to

  • Kadena Airman gets married by long distance

    The Nikah--a marriage contract--can be seen in the background on a computer monitor as an Islamic religious leader steps into view and begins a ceremony uniting an 18th Communication Squadron officer here in Okinawa with his bride in Pakistan. Dating was never an issue for the couple that met 15

  • Teak Iron exercise

    More than 80 Air Force members representing the 353rd Special Operations Group traveled to Indonesia for a joint combined exchange training exercise for the mutual security of Indonesia and the United States. The 26-day JCET was designed to improve the Special Operations Forces' readiness and

  • Team Kadena's new Staff Sergeants

    The following Team Kadena senior airmen were recently selected for promotion to staff sergeant: 18th Wing: Darnell Cannady, Jeremy McGuffin and Krystal Williams 18th Comptroller Squadron: Shaun Barton, Brittany Bohannon and Crystal Flick 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Nathan Adams and Matthew

  • New policy prohibits watering lawns

    A new wing water conservation policy now prohibits on-base residents from watering their lawns and washing cars in housing and dormitory areas. The new policy applies to all Kadena facilities and military family housing on Okinawa and was created to support an executive order issued by President

  • New Kadena unit enforces safety

    Officials here recently implemented use of a special traffic unit from the 18th Security Forces Squadron to keep down the number of vehicle accidents involving Team Kadena members. Recently an American driver hit an Okinawan child crossing the street off-base, adding the number of collisions

  • Kadena takes part in Valiant Shield

    Kadena-based units departed Okinawa Sunday on their way to Guam to join fellow Airmen and sister services in the joint Exercise Valiant Shield which runs through Aug. 14. The 44th Fighter Squadron, with elements of the 67th FS, and the 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron and 909th Air Refueling