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As summer winds down and students head back to class, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is helping savings sizzle with extra gas and food discounts for MILITARY STAR cardholders.

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- For some fighter pilots, a whole career leads up to one point. The moment where, at the pinnacle of all required training, they begin training to become an instructor pilot.
The future generation of fighter pilots rely on their instructors. Quite literally, the weight of the world is on their shoulders.

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- As the smell of worn rubber fills the morning air, Airmen from the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron know it’s time to get to work.
Kadena’s wheel and tire shop takes old wheels from Aircraft Maintenance Units around base and hands out the newly built tires.

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- His career has been more than 20 years in the making. What started out as a humble beginning has now turned into something more influential.
Kenichi Shimajiri, 18th Civil Engineer Squadron fire inspector, rose in the ranks from the role of a firefighter to 18th CES fire inspector.

OKINAWA, Japan -- Americans living and working in Okinawa will notice a change in the atmosphere during a few days in mid-August, as normally-packed local businesses and restaurants are idle, yet the streets have more traffic than usual as families take their special annual commute.

KADEN AIR BASE, Japan -- The Air Force Repair Enhancement Program isn’t widely known, even within the maintenance community. If an everyday back shop is incapable of fixing an item, that’s where AFREP comes in.