detachment has four work centers: TSCCOMM provides telecommunications support for Patrol Wing ONE Det Kadena, deployed patrol squadrons and Marine Wing Detachment CMS provides communications security (COMSEC) materials and cryptographic equipment to Patrol Squadrons and detachments, and to Commander Amphibious Group One/CTF76, located at White Beach Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) Awase provides HF transmitter support to the fleet and area commanders and LF transmitter support for submarines operating in the Pacific and Indian Oceans SURTASS supports command and control functions to SURTASS ships operating in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. Major commands to which assigned Tenth United States Army, 1 April 1945 Eighth Air Force, 16 July 1945 Pacific Air Command, United States Army (PACUSA), 6 December 1945 Redesignated: Far East Air Force, 1 January 1947 Redesignated: Pacific Air Forces, 1 July 1957 Base facilities Gate 5 Park Kadena Passenger Terminal Kadena Base Exchange Schilling Community Center Rocker Enlisted Club Officers Club EDIS (Early Developmental Intervention Services) Kadena Aeroclub Banyan Tree Golf Course Jack's Place Restaurant (originally Skoshi KOOM – Kadena Officers Open Mess) Kadena High School Kadena Middle School Kadena Elementary School Bob Hope Primary School Ryukyu Middle School Amelia Earhart Intermediate School Stearley Heights Elementary School The Asian Division of University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Kadena Commissary Environmental concerns In June 2013, the government of Japan discovered 22 barrels buried on former base property that tests showed had previously contained dioxins and herbicides. Tests on the surrounding soils found dioxin levels at 8.4 times and groundwater at 280 times the legal limit. The land in question is a soccer field bordering the base's Bob Hope Primary School and Amelia Earhart Intermediate School. Angry parents accused base officials, under base commanders Brigadier General Matt H. Molloy and Brigadier General James B. Hecker, of failing to notify them of the toxins near the school and not investigating into the matter. The parents established a Facebook group on 10 January 2014 titled, "Bob Hope/AEIS – Protect Our Kids." After the issue was reported in the Japan Times and Stars and Stripes, USAF officials tested the soil and water at the schools and said that no excessive toxic substances were found. Soil on the base tested positive for very high levels of polychlorinated biphenylchemicals (PCBs), in the thousands of parts per million, much higher than most other contamination sites in the world, according to a report issued in 1987