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  • AGE supports Army deployments

    Airmen with the 354th Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment flight assisted the Army's deployment Feb. 3 processing nearly 500 Soldiers through the Joint Mobility Complex to help fulfill the wing's mission of enabling military forces.AGE Airmen supported the deployment effort by de-icing

  • Tanker toads complete squadron first

    "There's a first time for everything!"This is a statement that rings true from people thorough their lives and careers. For the 96th Air Refueling Squadron, there have been and will continue to be first time events. A recent mission to Kadena Air Base, Japan, to refuel a squadron of Marine F/A-18

  • Misawa Sailors create snow sculpture in Northern Japan

    Sailors from Misawa Air Base will take part in Sapporo city's 62nd annual Snow Festival Jan. 31, 2011.The Sailors, attached to Naval Air Facility Misawa and its tenant commands, will spend the week creating an ice sculpture for the festival, which officially begins Feb. 6."We've conducted office

  • 15th Wing C-17s get their close up on Indian television

    The word "bakaya" might soon be used by new fans of 15th Wing C-17s once they make their debut on an episode of New Delhi Television's show "Bigger, Higher, Faster."This word meaning "outstanding" in English was also used with gratitude to describe the Indian news crew's experience with the 15th WG

  • Deployed father coaches wife, delivers baby from Afghanistan

    Deployed fathers can take an active role in the birth of their child, even if they are stationed in a combat zone by using computer video teleconferencing technology like Skype. Capt. Joseph Palermo, who recently coached his wife Katherine through the birthing process, both welcomed their daughter,

  • Tony Horton visits Kadena for 'Ripped and Ready Tour'

    As part of Armed Forces Entertainment's "Ripped and Ready Tour," Tony Horton, creator of the fitness program, P90X, put on an extreme fitness clinic at Kadena's Risner Fitness Center, Jan. 29, to promote physical fitness for service members and their families.The 90-minute workout session led more

  • New ID system improves security

    The Defense Biometric Identification System, or DBIDS, is a Department of Defense identity verification and force protection tool which uses barcodes and biometrics (a person's height and weight, eye color and fingerprints) along with a color photograph to identify cardholders.It is directly

  • Kadena becomes largest Air Force base to use Asset Marking and Tracking

    Pacific Air Forces has begun using the ground-breaking asset marking and tracking system, also known as the item unique identification system, starting with Kadena and Yokota Air Base in mainland Japan.Once fully integrated and operational, the system is designed to not only give Air Force officials