The 18th Aerospace Medicine Squadron is a United States Air Force unit providing preventive medicine and environmental laboratory services at Kadena Air Base, Japan. An archival image documents a laboratory chemist preparing samples for analysis on March 8, 2018, supporting testing of water, oil, and soil in Okinawa.

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