Kadena Air Base's 18th Maintenance Group received the 2023 Pheonix Award for best field-level maintenance unit in the Department of Defense.
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The U.S. Air Force and Navy both contributed aircraft to an impressive 33-plane "elephant walk" on the runway of Kadena Air Base in Japan on Nov. 21. The nearly three dozen aircraft included nine different types, showing off the range of capabilities at the base, ...
Kadena Air Base, Japan, saw the return of a familiar aircraft type on Oct. 3 when F-15C Eagles from the California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing and and the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Wing arrived to help keep up the continuous fighter ...
The Air Force’s overhaul of Kadena Air Base, Japan, took yet another step with the arrival of more F-15E Strike Eagles to replace the aging F-15C/Ds at the base. According to a service spokesperson, the Air Force plans to send all F-15Cs at Kadena back ...
After more than 40 years of operations, the Eagles at Kadena Air Base, Japan, are going out with a bash. Last fall, the Air Force announced that two permanent F-15C/D squadrons would wind down operations. On April 17, the top Air Force commander for the ...
F-15E Strike Eagles deployed to Kadena Air Base, Japan in April, joining F-35s to bolster the Air Force’s fighter fleet on the strategic island in the western Pacific. Meanwhile, the F-16CMs and F-22s that were previously forward deployed to Kadena have returned home, according to ...
F-35 Lightning II fighters arrived on Okinawa in March as the Air Force continues to swap out its permanently deployed F-15 Eagles at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Air Force officials declined to provide the exact number of F-35s at Kadena or say when more F-15s ...
For the first time the U.S. territory of Tinian, a small island around 100 miles north of the American military hub of Guam, hosted F-22 Raptors. The deployment, which began March 1, is part of an exercise dubbed Agile Reaper 23-1. Over time, the Department ...
A contingent of F-16CM multirole fighters has arrived at Kadena Air Base, Japan, to help substitute for F-15C/Ds rotating stateside for eventual retirement, the Air Force reported. The service said a permanent F-15 replacement at Kadena hasn't been determined yet, but will be an aircraft ...
A B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base flew from South Dakota to the Pacific and back earlier this week, integrating with Japanese F-15s and linking up with a KC-135 tanker along the way. The long-duration, roundtrip mission, referred to as a CONUS-to-CONUS mission, involved one ...
Fifth AF without F-15s; Collaborative Combat Aircraft; Layered missile defense in Guam.
Kadena Air Base, Japan, bid farewell to its first batch of F-15C Eagles on Dec. 1, as the Air Force began the two-year process of retiring the base's aging fighters. A press release from the 18th Wing at Kadena did not specify how many F-15s were ...