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  • Civil engineers hone nighttime contingency skills

    Before the sun came up June 21, members of the 8th Civil Engineer Squadron were honing skills which could increase their survivability downrange.The morning's training at Kunsan Air Base gave the "Red Devils" a chance to practice nighttime contingency operations, which are conducted in low-light

  • Osan expects gate delays as AFOC personnel transition to DBIDS

    Beginning midnight July 1, 2012, processing through Osan Air Base's Morin and main gates might take a little longer, as everyone gets checked through the Defense Biometric Identification System, also known as DBIDS.A recent agreement with Republic of Korea's Air Force Operations Center leaders paved

  • Keeping the lamp lit: Airmen serve as modern lighthouse keepers

    After crossing more than a thousand miles of ocean, every pilot flying over Japan relies on a small unit of Airmen here to guide their planes and passengers safely home. Although technology has changed over the last hundred years, the lighthouse is just as useful as ever. The Airmen of the 374th

  • Wolf Pack Airmen get glimpse of local culture, future plans

    A group of Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing received a special tour of Kunsan Air Base's neighboring city of Gunsan June 20. The Gunsan City Cultural Tour showcased the unique culture of the area, giving each attendee a chance to experience pieces of Gunsan's past, present and future. Starting off

  • Growing up a "brat" brings much-valued life lessons

    Growing up as an Air Force brat, I became grateful for the weirdest things.I was grateful that ironing my dad's BDUs was my sister's chore. I was grateful when my dad came down with kidney stones the summer of my sophomore year; this meant he didn't have to deploy for the third time in three years.

  • Osan NCO accepted into Air Force nursing program

    Staff Sgt. Charles Finklea is trading his stripes for bars after being accepted into the Air Force's Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program, an educational opportunity that covers tuition and still provides active-duty pay.NECP offers active-duty enlisted Airmen the opportunity to earn a bachelor's

  • Resiliency: Part of every Airman's life

    Osan Air Base leaders designated June 21 as Wingman Day, as the Department of Defense announced the need to care for each other as a growing need in the military.Demands on Airmen are higher than ever. Deployments, separation from family, low manning and tight fiscal constraints can cause an immense

  • Suicide Prevention: information is the best weapon

    In the year 2010 there were 110, in the year 2011 there were 122 and half way through 2012, already at 140; these, according to defense officials, are the number of suicides across the services within the past three years. It shows an upward trend in the number of lives lost despite the constantly

  • Kadena combats spice use

    Spice is one of the largest substance abuse problems in the U.S. military. Kadena is taking steps to curb this issue by informing the community on spice and its dangers. Airman 1st Class Tyler Prince shows us how Kadena is working to halt this trend. Click here to view the video.