KADENA AIR BASE, Japan A specialized engineering team from the headquarters of the Air Force Flight Standards Agency (AFFSA) arrived at Kadena Air Base to help optimize the on-base Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) and train Airmen from the 18th,
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Buy PhotoTech. Sgt. Seth Shannon, the 374th Security Forces Squadron’s kennel master, holds military working dog Allie at Yokota Air Base, Japan, June 25, 2021. (Theron Godbold/Stars and Stripes)
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan A pair of black Labrador retrievers have gone from green to blue, moving from the III Marine Expeditionary Force to new jobs with the Air Force’s 374th Security Forces Squadron in Tokyo.
Splash and Allie 4- and 5-year-old females flew from Camp Hanson on Okinawa to the home of U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force in the Japanese capital this spring, said Tech. Sgt. Seth Shannon, the security forces squadron’s kennel master.
on the eastern coast of okinawa, yanks enter the village of ken. the u.s. military came ashore in 1945, and to okinawans it must seem like they never left. today, there are roughly 30,000 troops stationed on the island. put that many americans in a place, especially young mostly male americans, and many of them home sic, and it tends to change the environment. this town is near camp hanson, one of the larger bases. this is a small slice of americana and both the mainstream america and the dark underbelly.