Kadena
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Sep 30, 2026
James C. GoodallGUEST
We're over flying, uh, North Vietnam.
James C. GoodallGUEST
I'm on, I'm well on my way home to Kadena, Okinawa.
James C. GoodallGUEST
It's, uh, about 11:00 at night.
James C. GoodallGUEST
It's a three-quarter moon." They're flying at 78,000 feet at Mach 2.7.
James C. GoodallGUEST
You wanna be over Mach 3 when you go over target.
James C. GoodallGUEST
But getting there, it reduces, 2.7, you reduce the thermal threats, stress on the airframe and its components by a huge factor.
James C. GoodallGUEST
So he said, "We were, uh, we were, we were cruising, heading back to Kadena." I think they already, already, must have already been, uh, met up with a tanker right after they left North Vietnam.
James C. GoodallGUEST
And they're a three-quarter moon off to the left, and off to the right, about five or six miles off to his right and 5,000 or 6,000 feet above him, he got a glint of something reflective.
Dave DeCampHOST
So this is an interesting story here.
Dave DeCampHOST
The town of Kadena in Japan's Okinawa prefecture, which hosts a U.S. military base, has strongly protested a planned U.S. deployment of a Typhoon missile launcher, which can fire Tomahawk missiles that have a range of over 1,000 miles, putting mainland China in range of launchers in Okinawa.
Dave DeCampHOST
According to the Japan Times, the Okinawa Defense Bureau said that the Typhoon system will be stored at the Kadena Air Base indefinitely and will be transferred there after it was deployed for the annual Orient Shield exercises, which concluded last week on September 24th.
Dave DeCampHOST
And Kadena Mayor Hiroshi Toyama, he has called this deployment totally unacceptable, and the town lodged a formal complaint to the Okinawa Defense Bureau demanding the plan to be withdrawn.
Dave DeCampHOST
And this is what the mayor said, quote, I cannot help but feel extremely strong distrust towards the stance of both the Japanese and U.S. governments, which disregard the excessive burden of the bases on the townspeople, end quote.
Dave DeCampHOST
And so this is a very controversial missile system.
Rich GonzalezGUEST
Like, everything I do revolves around a coyote.
Rich GonzalezGUEST
Like the air force job that I have now, I could go over to Kadena in Japan and work for four to six years and go do that, but they don't have coyotes.
Rich GonzalezGUEST
So I'm not going kind of funny.
GrantHOST
Yeah.
MackHOST
It was just like, "Hey, man, notification of assignment.
MackHOST
You're going to Kadena." And I'm just like-
Kelvin KeleighHOST
Korea?
MackHOST
Kadena.
MackHOST
Okinawa.
Kelvin KeleighHOST
Oh, Kadena.
MackHOST
Yes.
MackHOST
And I'm just like, "You know, five years ago, four years ago-