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  • Annual Traffic Safety Day promotes safe driving, U.S.-Japan partnership

    Dressed in service uniforms, more than 100 U.S. military and Japan Air Self-Defense Force personnel attended the 24th Annual Traffic Safety Day in the Misawa Civic Center, July 22. The summer event, which began in 1992 and lasts for 10 days each year, stressed the importance of preventing

  • Cope Taufan 16 kicks off

    “We are doing high end force integration efforts, because that’s the way…if we had to fight…we would fight together in this security environment,” said Col. Travis Rex, United States Air Force Exercise Director.

  • AF director of civil engineers tours new EOD compound

    Airmen with the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron salute Maj. Gen. Timothy S. Green, the Air Force Director of Civil Engineers and Deputy Chief of Staff for logistics, engineering and force protection with Headquarters U.S. Air Force, as he arrives on a tour bus at Misawa Air Base, Japan, July 1, 2016.

  • Legal Blotter - 2nd Qtr 2016

    During 2016's 2nd quarter, 18 Misawa Airmen received nonjudicial punishment under Article 15, Uniform Code of Military Justice. Commanders used the following as a means of punishment, rehabilitation, and maintaining good order and discipline.Nonjudicial Punishments (Articles 15):A senior airman

  • Cryogenics provides the coolest, freshest air

    U.S. Air Force Airman Wesley Henderson, a fuels distribution technician with the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron, oversees a liquid oxygen tank refilling at Misawa Air Base, Japan, June 29, 2016. Liquid oxygen tanks are refilled every three to four months and are used to produce breathable air for

  • Law school program creates JAGs from AF officers

    If anyone ever told you, “you should be a lawyer,” now’s your chance to start planning. Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program and Excess Leave Program will be accepted from Nov. 1, 2016 through Feb. 10, 2017.  Interested officers are encouraged to compete.  Note, however, that there

  • Maintenance Airman powers Misawa SEAD mission

    During an early afternoon, a soft warm breeze skirted across a flightline empty of the roar of F-16 Fighting Falcons preparing for another flight. In its place, tools clanking against metal echoed in the depths of a hangar. A crew chief worked diligently solving the most recent maintenance challenge