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  • Since the pandemic, members had to make adjustments in their personal lives to combat the spread of COVID-19. This parade provided an opportunity for members to showcase their resiliency and demonstrate their positivity by supporting their community.

    Misawa Community Parade: standing stronger together

    The Misawa Community Action Team hosted the 2020 Misawa Community Parade: Standing Stronger Together to boost morale and unity, demonstrating community resilience at Misawa Air Base, Japan, June 3. The Misawa CAT brought base members together while operating under COVID-19 restrictions that came along with it to congratulate the graduating seniors of Edgren High School.
  • U.S. Air Force Maj. Daniel House, left, the 35th Operations Support Squadron assistant director of operations, talks to Lt. Gen. Kevin B. Schneider, right, the U.S. Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force commander, at Draughon Range near Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 20, 2020. Draughon Range is the premier air-to-ground training site located in Japan, focusing on suppression of enemy air defense air operations. Members of the 35th Fighter Wing and other units throughout the Western Pacific train at the range to focus on SEAD and munition employment, combat search and rescue, and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape, ultimately enhancing the readiness and lethality of U.S. forces in this region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock)

    Draughon Range warriors showcase site’s training capabilities to the 5th Air Force command team

    Draughon Range personnel showcase the site’s training capabilities to the 5th Air Force command team. Members of the 35th Fighter Wing and other units throughout the Western Pacific train at the range to focus on SEAD and munition employment, combat search and rescue, and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape, ultimately enhancing the readiness and lethality of U.S. forces in this region.
  • Misawa Air Base defenders stand in formation during the final guard mount ceremony at Misawa AB, Japan, May 15, 2020. This ceremony is held to honor the law enforcement personnel who died in the line of duty at home and abroad by calling out their names as the flight sergeant conducts roll call. Fallen Airmen included names such as Airman First Class Elizabeth Jacobson, who died while providing escort security for a convoy of service members in the Middle East during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock)

    Misawa defenders remember the fallen

    The 35th Security Forces Squadron hosted National Police Week 2020 to recognize those who lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others at Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 11 to 15.
  • A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon taxis down the runway at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 30, 2020. In an air-to-surface role, the F-16 can fly more than 500 miles, deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point. This F-16 belongs to the 14th Fighter Squadron, assigned to Misawa AB in 1994. Their emblem is the Fighting Samurai. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock)

    For the 35th Fighter Wing, the mission continues

    The 35th Fighter Wing’s mission of projecting combat air power and defending the U.S. and Japan moves forward. “Despite the current COVID-19 crisis, our mission continues,” said Maj. David Dubel, the 14th Fighter Squadron director of operations. “This is a difficult yet opportune time for everyone to prove we can carry on with the mission regardless of the trials that stand before us. We have to proceed to do what we do here to ensure we are ready to answer our nation’s call.”
  • U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Tyrone Powell, left, a 35th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal journeyman and Airman 1st Class Derik Rosse, right, a 35th CES EOD apprentice, inspect an F6A robot at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 3, 2020. Personnel work together with reconnaissance robots to help locate, disarm and remove improvised explosive devices. The robots enter areas inaccessible or too dangerous for people and handle potential explosives without risking any lives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock)

    Misawa EOD team trains to save lives

    “Initial success or total failure” is the motto fueling explosive ordnance disposal Airmen to accept nothing less than perfection in and out of uniform. The 35th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight’s mission is to clear hazards by locating, identifying and neutralizing explosive devices so base operations can resume quickly during contingency operations.
  • U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Manuel Fralick, left, an outbound cargo NCO in charge, and Staff Sgt. James Davis, a cargo movement supervisor both with the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron, review calculations at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 13, 2020. The new laser profile system allowed the cargo deployment function to validate the measurements, weight and center of balance of cargo moves for exercises, deployments and day-to-day operations in an expedient matter, increasing work efficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class China M. Shock)

    35th LRS innovates the CDF

    U.S. Airmen with the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron implemented a new laser profile system to save manpower and reduce time during the Cargo Deployment Function at Misawa Air Base, Japan.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Barry Zielinski, a cyber transportation supervisor with the 35th Communications Squadron, shows Capt. Joseph Holloway, a pilot with the 13th Fighter Squadron, and 1st Lt. Jordan Garcia, an assistant unit deployment manager with the 14th Fighter Squadron, how to set up a Hawkeye III antenna at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 13, 2020. Zielinski showed the two officers how to set up the antenna as part of a practice capstone event for the Agile Combat Employment training for Misawa Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Timothy Moore)

    Misawa Airmen continue Agile Combat Employment training

    The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant in life is change.” That’s true in how we learn, how we teach, and even how the military operates in the defense of the United States, its interests, and its allies. It is that thought of change that 24 U.S. Airmen assigned to various units of the 35th Fighter Wing came together during an Agile Combat Employment, or ACE, practice capstone event at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 13, 2020.
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