Kadena Air Base's 18th Maintenance Group received the 2023 Pheonix Award for best field-level maintenance unit in the Department of Defense.
In the summer of 2019, the 18th Maintenance Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan, was struggling to produce just a light day of sorties. Just 16 months later, the unit pulled off a “super surge,” putting up 436 sorties in three and a half days—the ...