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  • Team Misawa lights Japanese community with holiday spirit

    The 35th Fighter Wing hosted the 18th Annual Holiday Lights Tour Dec. 16.Approximately 350 local Japanese toured Misawa’s housing areas to witness base residents' lights displays then experienced a festive ending at Sollars Elementary School.“My family enjoyed the event,” said Hazuki Satou, an 18th

  • Stronger together: 35th FW, Misawa City leaders cultivate safer community

    In an effort to promote a safer community, 35th Fighter Wing leadership partnered with the Misawa City Police Station during the End-of-Year Traffic Safety and Crime Prevention Campaign, Dec. 14. The annual event, in which 18 police stations across the Aomori Prefecture also took part, gathered

  • Misawa Airmen bring holiday cheer to Hirosaki orphanage

    On a brisk early morning, Team Misawa members suited up as Santa, Mrs. Clause, elves and reindeer and boarded a bus headed to a Hirosaki orphanage for holiday fun.Members of the 35th Operations Group and their families brought joy to kids in unfortunate circumstances at the Hirosaki Ai-Sei-En

  • PACAF F-16 Demo Team soars over Nyutabaru Air Base

    The Pacific Air Forces F-16 Demonstration Team from Misawa Air Base, Japan, performed at Nyutaburu Air Base, Japan, giving approximately 100,000 spectators a front row seat to the jet’s capabilities, Dec. 3.While the team's primary focus is displaying the F-16's maneuverability and power, community

  • ENDEX: ‘Wild Weasels’ return from VIGILANT ACE 18

    Miles above the ground, blue skies and white clouds acted as a gym for more than 230 aircraft over Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, last week. Among these aircraft, the 35th Fighter Wing used their Block 50 F-16 Fighting Falcons as another machine to strengthen and solidify training capabilities

  • UPDATE-PRESS RELEASE: Misawa Airman found deceased in on-base residence

    U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Christopher Blackwell, assigned to the 35th Operation Support Squadron, was found unresponsive in his dorm room on Thursday and pronounced deceased at approximately 12 p.m.Blackwell was a 25-year-old from Mililani Town, Hawaii, and an airfield systems technician who

  • First Japanese-built F-35A lands at Misawa AB

    A Defense Contract Management Agency government flight representative landed the first Japanese-made F-35A on Misawa AB's runway, Nov. 2.Maj. Elijah Supper piloted the brand-new aircraft from the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Komaki South F-35 Final Assembly and Check Out facility, and was quickly