Misawa AFB Exchange expands layaway to include laptops, computers for holiday season

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service is making it easier for military shoppers to keep in-demand gifts hidden away until the big day by extending fee-free layaway to computers, notebooks and laptops for a limited time.From now through Dec. 14, Misawa Exchange shoppers can use layaway to hold

Misawa Exchange pumping up the fuel savings for MILITARY STAR card users

With the busy, and expensive, holiday shopping season in full swing, Army & Air Force Exchange Service gas stations worldwide are helping to make sure that filling up doesn’t empty the wallet. From Dec. 19 to Dec. 25, the MILITARY STAR® card is doubling the everyday 5-cents-per-gallon gas discount

Team Misawa tests base readiness in active shooter exercise

UPDATE: Misawa Air Base incident

On November 29, at 1:47 a.m. in the lobby of the Misawa Inn, Misawa Air Base, a U.S. civilian was involved in a physical altercation with two Japanese National employees of Misawa Inn. Air Force Security Forces detained the U.S. civilian and he remains in custody on Misawa Air Base. One Japanese

First Japanese F-35A arrives at Luke

The F-35 program hit another milestone Nov. 28 with the arrival of the first Foreign Military Sales F-35 here.

Misawa vice catches first salmon at annual festival

The Annual Salmon Festival in Oirase, Japan, attracts Japanese and Americans alike from hundreds of miles away and is known regionally as the largest salmon festival in Northern Japan. Every year, a Misawa Air Base commander speaks at the event as an opportunity to thank the Japanese community for

Finding strength to triumph depression, anxiety

Before the sunlight touched my window, my alarm pierced the silence of my bedroom. As I reach over to my night stand to click snooze, I think:“Just another day…” Mustering the strength to get out of bed, I find my significant other running out the door on her way to work. She tells me, “Have a great