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  • Airman's Roll Call: Air Force offers benefits to Airmen

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on the various benefits the Air Force provides many Airmen and their families so they can continue to serve. Among the many benefits the Air Force offers, the convenience of on-base shopping and availability of child care can make life easier for Airmen and

  • Master, technical sergeant promotion rates announced

    Air Force officials here selected 5,404 of 24,223 eligible technical sergeants for promotion to master sergeant, and 7,110 of 38,324 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant in a list that will be released June 26. The master sergeant selection rate, 22.31 percent, decreased 2.58

  • Firefighters receive specialized training

    From burning buildings to the old cat in a tree, firefighters put themselves in compromising situations everyday. Saving life and limb becomes almost second nature for Misawa Air Base firemen whose average workweek is between 72 and 96 hours long. But not all of those hours have to do with fighting

  • Real scenarios, props test reactions during exercise

    Explosions rumble through Misawa Air Base killing and injuring several military members on May 28. While planting his first bomb on base, the terrorist accidentally killed himself in the process. A second bomb intended to kill as many first responders as possible sits 40 feet away, armed and ready