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  • Kadena takes physical fitness to extreme

    Staff members from the 18th Force Support Squadron's Risner Fitness Center are helping Team Kadena take fitness to the extreme. Held three times a year by the fitness center staff, the Extreme Fitness Challenge gives people the opportunity to work with a personal trainer in a group setting and put

  • Successful Deep Freeze season comes to an end

    Another season of Department of Defense support to the U.S. Antarctic Program and National Science Foundation activities in Antarctica came to an end Feb. 28. The 2008-2009 season of Operation Deep Freeze, the U.S. military's operational and logistical support of the NSF's scientific research

  • Kadena Airmen tutor students at Amelia Earhart Intermediate School

    Kadena Airmen are investing in the future by tutoring students at Amelia Earhart Intermediate School. The Department of Defense Education Activity asked schools in the Pacific region to develop a plan to help "at-risk" students succeed academically. The staff at DODEA decided to use its strong

  • Base scientist contributes to girls' math conference

    Among the milestones of mathematics, around 20,000 B.C. people carved notches in wood to represent numbers, and in 3500 B.C. people in Sumeria developed numbers based on place value. However, it wasn't until around the year A.D. 400 that a woman named Hypatia became the earliest notable female

  • Crew chief to entertain thousands worldwide

    An F-15 crew chief here was selected to join Tops in Blue in February. Airman 1st Class Sheila Smith, 3rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron, was accepted to join Tops in Blue, the Air Force's premier entertainment showcase, after submitting an audition video in response to a service-wide talent

  • Ice Operation has slippery start

    The 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron, Coast Guard, Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and the Alaska Environmental Protection Agency combined this year to practice decontamination procedures. Ice Ops is an annual exercise, which took place Feb. 24-25 here, to prepare for

  • Kadena Airmen reach out to Japanese children during deployment to JASDF base

    Airmen from the 18th Wing got the chance to volunteer at a Japanese preschool while temporarily deployed to The Japan Air Self Defense Force's Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture. About 15 Airmen used their native English skills to connect with sixty children, ages three to six years old, at