Located in the center of Okinawa island, Kadena Air Base is the largest U.S. Air Force installation in Asia.
Equipped with two 3.7-kilometer runways and thousands of hangars, homes and workshops, the base and its adjoining arsenal sprawl across 46 square kilometers. More than 20,000 American service members, contractors and their families live or work on the base alongside 3,000 Japanese employees.
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