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  • PACAF Demo Team fuels Alaskan community during Arctic Thunder 2018

    While an F-16 Fighting Falcon demonstration engages communities across the world through its gravity-defying tricks, the team behind the machine also  engages with the community across the Indo-Pacific region but in a more... green way. Arctic Thunder, a biennial air show, allowed the Pacific Air

  • Typhoon Lionrock rocks Misawa, but CE is always ready

    Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron operations section clean up fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 35th CES responded the morning after Typhoon Lionrock to begin clean up around base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

  • Dad, where does our trash go and do we recycle correctly?

    Green phantoms dash about Misawa Air Base, sometimes found in plain sight other times lurking behind buildings; their only mission is to take your trash and recyclables far away, but where?The phantoms are actually what the Japanese call trash cars, and they visit the base several times a day. These

  • Frosty service members brave arctic temperatures to beautify city

    Service members from Misawa Air Base, Japan, struck out across Misawa City to pick up trash during the second Misawa City Cleanup event Feb. 23, 2013.Seventy-two volunteers bundled up and met in the Exchange parking lot ready to help beautify the city. The volunteers broke into six groups, took

  • You will be ‘ex’terminated; make sure they won’t be back

    The day starts off normal enough. You wake up and head to the bathroom for a nice morning shower, except there's a spider dangling from your showerhead. You have a couple of options. You could carry the little guy outside or maybe crush it with a shoe or any other blunt object you have lying around.

  • Don't kill Nemo, use Misawa's Recycling Center

    The 35th Fighter Wing is committed to achieving the Air Force's goal of recycling 65 percent of the base's trash by 2020. This goal will help keep trash out of landfills where it can pollute the ground, waterways, where it can kill fish, and the off-base incinerator.Recycling center officials

  • Taking birds off the map

    For almost one year now, Airmen 1st Class Marnell Dillingham and Jarrett Dowey have been cruising around the flightline three times a day, armed with a pail of bird scare ammunition and two shotguns. While out there, their role is to scare birds that fly too close to the flightline.The two 35th