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  • PCS season brings newcomers to Okinawa

    (Editor's note: This is the final article of a series of articles about peak moving season on Okinawa.)The newness of living on Okinawa can overwhelm many people who have freshly arrived to Kadena. Newcomers here have many options available to explore the island and take advantage of base programs.

  • Kadena adds to list of 2012 award winners

    During 2012, the units on Kadena earned a vast amount and variety of individual and squadron awards. The 18th Wing Command Post and Chapel, and 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron were no exception.Master Sgt. Tamesia Boone, 18th Wing Chapel superintendent of chapel operations, earned the Pacific

  • Hagel announces fewer furlough days for DOD employees

    After weeks of review, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded budget cuts will require most of the department's civilian employees to be furloughed beginning in July, but that because of other efforts to deal with the shortfall, only half of the 22 days originally envisioned as temporary

  • Mrs. Petraeus educates Kadena on CFPB

    Service members and their families here recently learned about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its resources available to them from the bureau's assistant director. Holly Petraeus, CFPB assistant director and head of the office of service member affairs, recently visited Kadena to

  • Sequestration impacts Okinawa military family housing

    Most military members have heard about and felt the impacts of sequestration. These impacts include military family housing on Okinawa. As a result, certain cost-saving measures are being immediately implemented to save money to ensure the 718th Civil Engineer Squadron has funds available to provide

  • Kadena CDCs, Red Cross, MDG partner for Month of the Military Child event

    The Kadena child development centers hosted a Month of the Military Child "Doc in a Box" program along with the Kadena Red Cross and Kadena Pediatric Clinic April 19. The event offered parents an opportunity to get first-hand medical information and educational information aimed at promoting raising

  • Kadena Chapel hosts clergy day for local religious leaders

    More than 50 local religious leaders from Okinawa visited Kadena for Japanese Clergy Day April 17.Local Catholic and Protestant religious leaders from Okinawan churches came to Kadena Air Base with the Kadena Chaplain Corps for a day of religious commonality, nicknamed the "Spiritual Air Show."

  • Teams square off in AFAF Sports Day competition

    Fifty people amassing 12 teams gathered at the Risner Fitness Center here April 12 with one common process on their minds: compete, control ... and contribute.Teams from all around the base shelled out cash as donations to the Air Force Assistance Fund for their chance to dominate the courts in each

  • 2013 Community Assessment Survey begins at Kadena

    "A Strong Community Depends on You!" is this year's Community Assessment Survey theme that began at Kadena Air Base, Japan, mid April 2013.The Community Assessment is the only Air Force-wide survey that gathers information tailored for each and every Air Force installation. For more than a decade,

  • Performance program strengthens battlefield Airmen

    "Humans are more important than hardware" is a saying heard continuously throughout the special operations community. One special tactics squadron has a facility that turns these words into action.The 320th Special Tactics Squadron's Human Performance Training Center here offers battlefield Airmen

  • Maintaining so 'that others may live'

    The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter is a formidable tool in the Combat Search and Rescue arsenal.The members of the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's 83rd Helicopter Maintenance Unit here work hard to keep it that way."Our first priority is to make sure we provide safe and reliable

  • Knowing JCI, other paperwork dates crucial to driving on Okinawa

    Driving on the left side of the road is only one of many differences between driving in Okinawa and driving in the United States. In the United States, if a driver has a current driver's license, pays a yearly state registration fee, and carries the amount of insurance required by his or her state,

  • Okinawan native earns AF-level award

    An Okinawan native was recently recognized with the Air Force Information Dominance Outstanding Civilian Assistant award for his meritorious service October 2011-September 2012.The Air Force Information Dominance Outstanding Civilian Assistant award is an Air Force-level award that recognizes Air

  • 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