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  • U.S.-Thai Airmen have a heart for handicapped children

    Servicemembers presented more than $1,300 in supplies to help Panyahukul Handicapped School students at a community outreach event during Cope Tiger, a multilateral joint and combined field training exercise in Korat, Thailand, March 18.The school staff welcomed U.S. and Royal Thai Air Force Airmen

  • Combined rescue crew delivers relief supplies

    A combined crew of rescue Airmen from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, 33rd Rescue Squadron and 31st Rescue Squadron, all deployed from Kade delivered food, water and medical supplies to Kessenuma City from Yokota, Air Base, Japan, March 20 in support of Operation Tomodachi.Kessenuma City

  • Pacific Air Forces commander focuses on future

    The commander of Pacific Air Forces spoke with national media members to outline his responsibilities during the 2009 Air Force Association Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 16 at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Gen. Gary North discussed his role as the Pacific Air Forces

  • Kadena honors prisoners of war, missing comrades

    Friday, Sept. 18, marks National POW/MIA Recognition Day and dozens of Kadena volunteers plan to pay tribute with a vigil run and reveille ceremony starting today. Other Kadena Airmen have already paid tribute to their comrades who were held in captivity or have never returned home in their own

  • Bringing it back to basic

    Though Air Force fitness standards have become more stringent, members of the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle maintenance flight aren't intimidated. They believe their dynamic fitness program, which is old-school in some ways and enterprising in others, is preparing them for success not

  • 5K fundraiser keeps Special Olympics running

    Four hundred runners started their Saturday morning with a Special Olympics 5K run fundraiser at the Risner Fitness Complex Aug. 12. Though grueling for some participants, the run was virtually a walk in the park for the Kadena High School cross country team: one of the team members, Jacob

  • Airmen have a Ball

    Kadena Airmen celebrated the 62nd birthday of the United States Air Force with a Ball at Kadena's Rocker NCO Club Sept. 12. General Kevin Chilton, commander of United States Strategic Command, was the guest of honor and keynote speaker at this year's Air Force Ball.

  • Kadena remembers 9/11

    Members of Team Kadena, to include Airmen, sailors, soldiers and Marines, spent the morning remembering those victims and first responders who died Sept. 11, 2001. Also recognized were those who have served in the military, whether deployed or at home station, since these events. Brig. Gen. Ken

  • Kadena Airman jams with Los Lonely Boys downrange

    Kadena Airman 1st Class Theodore Wilkins, deployed from the 18th Security Forces Squadron and assigned to the 732nd Expeditionary SFS, plays the saxophone on stage with the Los Lonely Boys for a mixed crowd of Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, and civilians at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq,

  • Kadena Airmen return from Guam

    Most of the Airmen sent here from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, for a week-long test of the 18th Wing's deployment capabilities returned home Sept. 8. More than 100 maintenance, operations, and support personnel "deployed" to Guam Aug. 31 to exercise the 18th Wing's ability to send assembled teams of