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  • Yokota trespassers caught, detained, released

    Clink! That was the noise made as the trap captured one of the trespassers. Her partner witnessed this and tried to escape through a storm drain but was caught an hour later. Both of the trespassers were caught, detained and after further investigation, released. The two trespassers, Tanukis,

  • Deployed F-22 Raptors arrive at Andersen

    Twelve F-22 Raptors deployed from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, arrived at Andersen Air Force Base Jan. 18, for a three month deployment in support of Pacific Global Deterrence mission. As part of the continuing force posture adjustments to address worldwide requirements, the United States

  • High-tech system adds security to Misawa

    A $260,000 system geared at increasing base security is scheduled to make its debut here by late spring. The Defense Biometrics Identification System or DBIDS is a Department of Defense identity authentication tool, which will be used at the base's entry points by gate security guards. The system

  • Raptors begin training with 18th Wing

    F-22 Raptors took to the skies here Jan. 14 as the 27th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron began flight operations with the 18th Wing. The Raptors will spend the next several months conducting air combat training alongside Kadena's F-15s and will work to integrate with all of the aircraft assigned to

  • Kadena Civil Engineers Earn Top Air Force Honors

    Kadena's 18th Civil Engineer Group was awarded the Major General Robert H. Curtin Award as the most outstanding civil engineer unit in the Air Force for the second year in a row. Competing in the large unit category, the 18th CEG, which is comprised of the 18th and 718th Civil Engineer Squadrons,

  • Wolf Pack conducts first exercise of New Year

    Wolf Pack members are exercising the base's mission here--to Defend the Base, Accept Follow-on Forces and Take the Fight North-- for the first time this year. An afternoon, base-wide recall Jan. 10, joined Airmen and Soldiers in order to test their ability to survive and operate in simulated wartime

  • Raptors return to the Pacific

    Six F-22 Raptors arrived at Kadena Air Base today as part of a three-month deployment in support of U.S. Pacific Command's security obligations in the Western Pacific. To see video of the arrival, click here.The planes landed around 4 p.m. under partly cloudy skies after a 10-hour flight from Hickam

  • Kadena maintainers welcomed warmly home

    A group of maintainers from the 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron returned to Kadena Air Base from a 120-day deployment to Afghanistan Jan. 7. Working night and day at Bagram Air Base to save lives and support U.S. and coalition forces, the 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit maintainers kept three