Nearly 80 athletes gave their all during the 20th Kadena Special Olympics beneath soggy skies at this U.S. base over the weekend.

An Air Force officer who became the third woman to be awarded a Silver Star since World War II was among 30 service members recognized this week for battling a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones.

Four teams intermingled with American and Japanese commissioned and noncommissioned officers faced each other during a full day of competition at Yokota Air Base’s Friendship Field.

Pacific Air Forces is recruiting volunteers for Iron Athena, a fledgling grassroots initiative focused on addressing readiness and retention barriers faced by female airmen and their families, inspired by similar “Athena” organizations throughout the Air Force.

The Air Force is retiring A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from South Korea and upgrading its F-16 Fighting Falcons there as part of a “modernization effort” across the service, a news release said.

As part of a restructuring initiative, U.S. Forces Japan is looking into appropriating an Army compound in central Tokyo as the command weighs a move from the city’s western suburbs potentially to a downtown district just a few miles from Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

About 100 young athletes from across Japan gathered at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo over the weekend for the 45th Kanto Plains Special Olympics.

A team from California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing successfully saved a U.S. Air Force veteran who experienced stroke-like symptoms during a chartered fishing trip off the coast of San Diego early Friday morning.

Several of the iconic cherry blossom trees that make this airlift hub in western Tokyo a popular spot to visit during each spring have gone missing. 

A Pentagon agency that pioneered such technologies as four-legged robots is now giving rise to reefs made with coral and oyster colonies that it hopes will soon protect coastal military bases from deadly storm surges.

Another contingent of stealth fighters has landed at Kadena Air Base as part of a temporary plan to fill in for retiring F-15 Eagles.

Unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States and South Korea recently teamed up to improve their combat effectiveness via first-of-their-kind live-fire drills.

Army and Air Force Exchange Service employees have the legal right to either show up on the job or walk out. Employees won’t notify supervisors of their choice until Monday, leaving AAFES in the dark about which areas of its operations will be affected and to what extent.

A pair of Navy surveillance drones has left Okinawa after working from the island for five months, but even with their departure, drones will continue to fly from Kadena Air Base courtesy of ongoing Air Force and Marine Corps deployments.

The findings reveal procurement missteps that allowed Boeing to overcharge for various components of the C-17 Globemaster III. The Air Force paid over 80 times more than it should have for soap dispensers on the cargo planes, a significant part of nearly $1 million in wasteful spending.

The El Segundo, Ca., satellite plant makes large satellites for commercial, government and military customers. In 2018 Boeing acquired Millennium Space Systems, which is also based in El Segundo and has received defense contracts for satellites to detect new threats such as hypersonic missiles.

A squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcons recently became the latest to complete a fighter rotation on Okinawa as Kadena Air Base awaits a permanent contingent of advanced aircraft.

Air Force aircraft maintainers are not required to sign nondisclosure agreements, but those who don’t sign them cannot hear quarterly, confidential briefs on aircraft mishaps and will not be privy to information that could help prevent further mishaps.

The Military Family Readiness Center spouse hub is the first facility of its kind in the Air Force. Among other things, it provides a venue for spouses to explore career advancements and to build lasting relationships.