The 18th Wing is conducting safety inspections on all F-15E Strike Eagles deployed to Kadena Air Base after one of the multirole fighters safely landed at the Okinawa base with a missing wheel.

The person was not affiliated with the military and failed to stop at the base’s main entrance, which is required by all drivers.

The “service-wide supplemental inspection” of the about 125,000 M18s used by the Air Force was ordered to “validate the serviceability of weapons and reinforce confidence in their use,” an Air Force spokesperson said.

A service member from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in England died in a vehicle crash while off duty, according to base officials.

An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle deployed to Kadena Air Base landed safely after one of its wheels was discovered missing in flight.

Japan’s Tohoku Defense Bureau said it was not informed of an in-flight incident involving a HC-130J Combat King II that landed at Misawa Air Force Base last month.

Air Force civil engineers plan to inspect the balconies of all homes in six family housing towers on this Marine Corps base for spalling concrete, a problem discovered in other housing units on the island earlier this year.

The Air Force has started moving 31 F-16 Fighting Falcons from southwestern South Korea to Osan Air Base as part of a plan to form a second “super squadron” closer to the border with North Korea, the service announced.

American forces have flown food and other emergency relief supplies to communities in the northern Philippines affected by recent typhoons, tropical storms and monsoon rains.

Two airmen from Yokota Air Base were honored by the Tokyo Fire Department for helping to save a woman who fell into a river canyon west of the city.