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  • JAAGA honors members of Misawa

    Every year the Japan-America Air Force Goodwill Association, comprised of primarily JASDF veterans, awards the top JASDF and U.S. Air Force member for the work accomplished throughout the community, as well as the time they gave toward improving bilateral relations.  

  • Use it or lose it: Changes to Air Force leave policy arrive this year

    The warning on January's Leave and Earning Statement is clear -- "Important: Manage your leave. On 1 Oct 15, you will lose all accrued leave over 60 days unless special leave accrual applies."Air Force active duty, active guard and reserve members with more than 60 days of leave have less than eight

  • Misawa hosts Bilateral Exchange Program

    Members of the 35th Maintenance Squadron hosted Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel during the Bilateral Exchange Program Feb. 2-13. The program began in 1996 to allow American and Japanese Forces the opportunity to work together and learn from each other's daily operations. Twenty years later,

  • Pilots evade capture through SERE operation

    Each month, F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots from the 35th Fighter Wing participate in a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape exercise where their aircraft is simulated as downed in enemy territory, forcing them to do whatever it takes to avoid capture. On Feb. 12, 2015, 14 teams of two assimilated

  • LRS boosts cargo movement capability

    A newly acquired Weigh-In-Motion system, capable of processing cargo shipments twice as fast, was put to the test at Misawa Air Base for the 2015 Cope North deployment, Feb. 2.This multilateral operational training exercise allows Misawa's F-16 Fighting Falcons to conduct a variety of operations

  • Misawa Airmen support COPE NORTH

    Approximately 400 Airmen and several F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 35th Fighter Wing departed Misawa Air Base, Japan, to participate in COPE NORTH 2015, a multilateral operational training exercise in Andersen AFB, Guam, Feb. 2, 2015. This exercise allows the U.S. Air Force and Navy, Japan Air Self

  • Generating Airpower: Chiefs of the flightline

    Growing up in backwoods Arkansas, he'd never turned a wrench a day in his life. Most of his time was spent at fishing holes, hauling hay and running around with his buddies. The closest he got to a garage was changing his car oil for a senior year shop class. It would be an understatement to say he