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Security forces personnel have received dozens of calls in the last 10 days reporting a 3-foot, 65-pound intruder on the base.

An estimated $1.2 million worth of earthquake and tsunami relief supplies collected in the Pacific Northwest are finally en route to Misawa Air Base, where they will be doled out to orphanages and hard-hit coastal areas.

U.S. military commanders on Okinawa ordered a limited evacuation of coastal areas for all DOD personnel shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, and Japanese officials ordered the evacuation of more than 4,000 people living along the coastline near Misawa Air Base in mainland Japan.

A possible World War II-era bunker that survived the intense U.S. bombing of the area more than 60 years ago might be turned into a museum, if base officials have their way.

Misawa leaders are telling servicemembers here to stay out of the water — at least temporarily — until they figure out new restrictions being enforced by the Japanese government following the March 11 earthquake and tsunamis that decimated much of the northeastern coastline.

In the week before the school’s spring break, students at Misawa labored through a project to raise money for the Japanese communities hardest hit by last month’s deadly earthquake and the tsunamis it spawned.