JASDF Misawa Air Base

**JASDF Misawa Air Base** is an air force base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, the United States Air Force, and the United States Navy in Misawa city, located in Aomori prefecture, Japan.

## Description

Misawa Air Base is located approximately 400 miles north of Tokyo, adjacent to Misawa City on the shores of Lake Ogawara in Aomori Prefecture, in Tohoku. It has been used by the military since the Meiji period, when it was used as a cavalry training center for the Imperial Japanese Army. The first Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) units were activated at Misawa in October 1954, and the first Japanese Northern Air Defense Force units began operations in 1957.

Misawa Air Base is the only combined, joint service installation in the western Pacific. It houses three U.S. military services (Air Force, Navy, and Army), as well as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. The base is home to 5,200 US military personnel, as well as 350 US civilian employees and 900 Japanese national employees.

The Misawa Passive Radio Frequency space surveillance site was used for tracking satellites using the signals they transmit. It also provided coverage of geosynchronous satellites using the Deep Space Tracking System (DSTS) but was dismantled around 2002. The Misawa Security Operations Center (MSOC), located in the northwestern part of the Air Base, is believed to be one of the largest ECHELON ground stations.

## Chronology

### The Lone Warriors (Light Novel)

At the Ministry of Defense in Japan's capital Tokyo, they received the message regarding the satellite Oka Shinji had sent on the JPRC-PC2 experimental mobile communications device as they entered the final phase of the war with the Parpaldia Empire. They learned the report that the entirety of the Grameus expedition on the C-2 transport aircraft was crashed by running a massive geomagnetic storm midair and slamming into a formation of birds. They got Oka Shinji, who survived alone, as they looked up the name in the list of names of those sent on the Grameus expedition. Also, they learned the Esperanto Kingdom was currently in danger of being wiped out, located north of Topa, deep within the Grameus continent, according to the coordinates from the satellite. They had the number of aircraft available for the mission by the cabinet minister's approval. They hoped preparations for reinforcements to be deployed to Esperanto were underway. However, Oka informed them by sending another satellite message that the attack would come on August 31st. They replied to him that they would come to help with the air support unit.

On August 31st, in the early morning, five F-2 fighters of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Northern Air Defense Force’s 3rd Air Wing were taxiing towards the runway at the Misawa Air Base. Each F-2 fighter carried two 600gal drop tanks, 12 Mk. 82 500lb bombs, and two Type 90 air-to-air missiles (AAM-4). Furthermore, they had two KC-767 aerial tankers filled to the brim with fuel join this mission and are currently preparing to take off. The tankers would allow the F-2s to be able to get to Grameus.

Air traffic controllers watching the scene unfold from the air traffic control tower were conversing with one another about the operation at hand. They learned the C-2 crashed because it was in the direct path of a large magnetic storm. Fortunately, JGSDF researchers and meteorologists sent to the Topa Kingdom said that that phenomenon would not occur within this period. They hoped for the safe return of their comrades from Grameus.

With all F-2 fighters ready to take off, they awaited clearance from the air traffic control tower. F-2 fighters received the clearance in order, taking off from the Misawa Air Base into the great beyond. With the temperature forecast to be in the high 30s due to the lingering summer heat, the air support unit to aid Esperanto with its dangerous wildlife problem was on its way.