Story by Senior Airman Catherine Daniel | 18th Wing | 06.23.2025
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan — Minister of Defense, Mr. Gen Nakatani, Ministry of Defense, visited the 18th Wing on June 23, 2025, to learn more about the support Okinawa-based forces provide to the broader Pacific theater....
Story by Senior Airman Yosselin Campos | 18th Wing | 05.18.2023
Kadena Air Base, Japan recently earned the 2023 Secretary of Defense Environmental Sustainability, Non-Industrial Installation Award for outstanding achievements in the Department of Defense environmental programs. The Sustainability, Non-Industrial Installation Award recognizes efforts by a DoD non-industrial installation with a measurable focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy......
Story by Senior Airman Yosselin Campos | 18th Wing | 12.09.2022
Airmen assigned to the 18th Wing recently concluded a routine operational readiness exercise designed to sharpen skills needed to ensure security and stability of the lndo-Pacific in any contested environment. The week-long exercise extensively tested the wing’s ability to rapidly respond to a variety of contingencies in an organized manner....
Story by Staff Sgt. Daryn Murphy | 18th Wing | 10.30.2020
Airman 1st Class Leonard Cantrell Jr., an executive communications technician with the 18th Communications Squadron, saves a woman and her child from a swimming incident on Okinawa, Japan....
Story by Staff Sgt. Daryn Murphy | 18th Wing | 10.29.2020
JSTARS provide combatant commanders with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in many different theaters. At Kadena Air Base, the 5th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron helps provide support for a free and open Indo-Pacific....
Story by Airman 1st Class Rebeckah Valladares | 18th Wing | 08.05.2020
Mr. William McEvoy, 18th Wing base historian, teaches Okinawan and base history during a virtual lesson in the First Term Airmen Course, Aug. 5, 2020 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Incoming Airmen are required to attend the First Term Airmen Course at their first assignment location. (U.S. Air Force article by Airman 1st Class Rebeckah Medeiros)...
Story by Airman 1st Class Mandy Foster | 18th Wing | 02.19.2020
Team Kadena supported the Okinawa Marathon Feb. 16, 2020, on Kadena Air Base, Japan. Every year thousands of people train to run the Okinawa marathon, and Kadena AB has been there to support the athletes each year....
Story by Airman 1st Class Rebeckah Valladares | 18th Wing | 01.16.2020
As the sun dances across the room, glaring off the origami hanging from the ceiling, Dennis Provencher looks upon his framed photo and world record certificate of recognition with pride while explaining to the service members how and why he earned it....
