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  • Power conservation to continue through summer

    Representatives from Tohoku Power Company met with Misawa Air Base leadership June 15 to discuss power restrictions for the summer period of July 1 to Sept. 30. Tohoku Power requested a voluntary 15 percent reduction in power, below the power rate currently contracted to Misawa Air Base. In May, the

  • Medics train to sustain life-saving skills in combat

    The 35th Fighter Wing is participating in a week-long operational readiness exercise designed to test Airmen's ability to survive and operate in a combat environment. During the exercise, medical personnel are operating out of a deployed medical facility similar to where they'd work in a combat

  • AFN Misawa to convert to digital signal

    Japan is converting its television signal to digital-only and will stop broadcasting over-the-air analog signals beginning July 24. As such, the television signal at Misawa Air Base will undergo the same change.Effective July 1, the Defense Media Activity-Pacific, in coordination with Japanese

  • Revised policy brings predictability to base residents

    Misawa Air Base is currently in its no heat/no cool period. Historically, this energy- and cost-saving period was declared on different dates each year, causing some confusion among base residents as to when heating would be turned on or off. To ease that confusion, the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron