Misawa hosts 32nd Annual Special Olympics

Team Misawa hosted 170 athletes and their families for this year's Special Olympics at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Oct. 6.More than 200 volunteers helped put together the 32nd iteration of this event, with several stations for athletes to hone their skills including basketball, soccer, cornhole,

35th FW Chapel NCO STEPs up a rank

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chris Jeffers, the 35th Fighter Wing Chapel resource management NCO in charge, received an on-the-spot promotion from staff sergeant under the Stripes for Exceptional Performers program during a wing-wide foreign object and debris walk, Sept. 10.

The 35th FW kicks off RED FLAG-Alaska 19-1

Exercise RED FLAG-Alaska 19-1 kicked off at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Oct. 4 with primary flying operations being executed over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. Misawa Air Base’s 35th Fighter Wing is serving as the lead unit throughout the Pacific Air Forces-sponsored training.

Active shooter exercise tests Misawa personnel

35th FW hosts JASDF Bilateral Exchange Program, builds Indo-Pacific partnership

When allies smoothly integrate with each other, both professionally and emotionally, a sliver of a connection is established, becomes reinforced and later woven into an inseparable bond, providing balance in the Indo-Pacific region. Approximately two decades ago, Team Misawa initiated the

JASDF Airmen compete in English skills contest at Misawa AB

Thirty-five Japan Air Self-Defense Force members competed in the fourth annual JASDF English competition, which was judged by two U.S. Air Force members Aug. 29 and 30.

Misawa Friendship Festival honors Hokkaido victims

Out of respect for the victims of the Hokkaido earthquakes, the 35th Fighter Wing, together with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force 3rd Air Wing, cancelled aerial demonstrations, focusing on ground demonstrations and renaming the event the Misawa Friendship Festival Sept. 9.