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  • Coping with stress through healthy thinking

    Stress. Even mention of the word can increase anxiety for some. Everyone deals with stress differently, but how you cope with daily stressors can have great impacts on your quality of life and overall health.Stress is actually the body’s response to any demand, including change. According to the

  • AADD gets you home safe

    The Airmen Against Drunk Driving program's primary mission is to assist the members of Kadena Air Base with an organized designated-driver program by providing safe, anonymous and free rides to residences in support of preventing alcohol-related incidents.Their goal is to prevent alcohol related

  • Kadena offers service members voting assistance

    Kadena will be offering voting assistance to service members stationed here.In order to vote from Kadena by absentee ballot, registration needs to be completed or an update to the voter's address will need to be done through the voter's home county voter registration office.This can be done through

  • Select Kadena NAF employees entitled to wage compensation

    KADENA AIR BASE, Japan - Kadena Air Base officials are seeking employees who worked at the Karing Kennels facility on base between 2008 and 2014.A recent Pacific Air Forces audit concluded that some of these non-appropriated funds employees could be entitled to additional compensation for wages

  • Tropical Storm Dujuan approaches Okinawa

    The 18th Wing commander declared Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 3 for Okinawa at 9 a.m. Sept. 25.At noon, Tropical Storm Dujuan, with winds gusting to 80 knots near its center, was located 366 nautical miles southeast of Kadena, moving northwest at 3 knots.Currently, the closest forecast

  • Kadena celebrates AF’s 68th birthday at Passenger Terminal

    A cake cutting ceremony was held Sept. 18 in celebration of the Air Force's 68th birthday at the Kadena Passenger Terminal.The event was hosted by the 733rd Air Mobility Squadron and volunteers from USO Kadena in order to honor the Air Force's aging heritage. Travelers passing through the terminal

  • Kadena begins Project 22 initiative

    Kadena senior leadership is kicking off  Project 22 this week in support of September being suicide awareness month.Project 22 is a participant-driven initiative where all of team Kadena is challenged to visit agencies around the base to raise awareness about the methods and resources of lowering

  • Team Kadena hosts Typhoon Preparedness Extravaganza

    Typhoons are storms that bring strong winds, rain, and cause a lot of damage. For the residents of Okinawa this is nothing new.  However, for people that have recently experienced a permanent change of station to the island, these storms can be quite a shock if caught unprepared.A coalition of

  • Typhoon Halola sets eye on Okinawa

    As of 5 a.m. local time here, The 18th Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Barry Cornish, has directed Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 2.At 3 a.m., Typhoon Halola, with winds gusting to 100 knots near its center, was located 300 nautical miles southeast of Kadena, moving west at 8 knots.Currently,

  • Okinawa preps for Typhoon Chan-Hom

    As of 2 p.m. local time here, The 18th Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Barry Cornish, has directed Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 1.At 9 a.m., Typhoon Chan-Hom, with winds gusting to 110 knots near its center, was located 250 nautical miles southeast of Kadena, moving northwest at 12

  • Typhoon season begins

    On June 1, Kadena entered Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4, the default condition of readiness during typhoon season, which will last until November 30.Island residents experienced TCCOR 5 for the first time earlier this year, but this level of readiness is only used during the typhoon