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  • Sister City Delegates Tour Misawa Air Base

    Delegates from Wenatchee visit Misawa City annually, highlighting the legacy of community relations initiated by the historic Miss Veedol flight in 1931, the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean starting at Sabishiro Beach, Misawa and landing in East Wenatchee.

  • Misawa Hosts First Joint Enlisted Bilateral Combat Dining-in

    Members of Team Misawa pose together prior to Misawa’s first joint enlisted bilateral combat dining-in event at Misawa Air Base, Japan, July 28, 2023. A combat dining-in is a military tradition consisting of a dinner with bizarre rules, water fights, informal uniforms, and various other events that

  • Breaking Barriers

    Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Sgt. Daichi Suzuki, 6th Engineer Battalion deputy squad leader and English instructor, introduces himself during Camp Sendai’s Basic English Training Course tour of the Airman Leadership School at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Nov. 8, 2022. The JGSDF soldiers toured

  • MAKE THEM TELL YOU NO

    Amelia Earhart once said ‘everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?’As children we are told to dream big. For some kids that dream is being tall and for others it’s being a professional athlete. But for a young Justine

  • Misawa Mudder 2022

    Misawa held the second annual Misawa Mudder, a 5k course that consisted of different obstacles that challenged Airmen and their families to crawl, climb, run, and slide through mud and water. The 35th Force Support Squadron also provided $30,000 worth of crab legs to participants and their families.

  • Second quarter Load crew competition

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 13th and 14th Aircraft Maintenance Units participated in the second quarter load crew competition at Misawa Air Base, Japan, July 1, 2022. The competition tests weapons load crews’ ability to provide safe, reliable, timely and effective munitions on aircraft,