RIMPAC vessels head out to sea for war games

The ocean exercise involves 200 aircraft, a half-dozen subs and 40 surface ships

By William Cole

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 11, 2012

~~<p>Pearl Harbor is being drained of nearly 40 ships as the at-sea portion of the big June 29-to-Aug. 3 Rim of the Pacific exercise gets under way around the Hawaiian Islands.</p>
<p>"Some ships have already departed, and over the next couple of days, we'll shift from the harbor phase to the ‘Schedule of Events' phase, which is essentially the beginning of the period where we will be working at sea," U.S. Navy Cmdr. Charlie Brown, a RIMPAC spokesman, said Monday.</p>
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Pearl Harbor is being drained of nearly 40 ships as the at-sea portion of the big June 29-to-Aug. 3 Rim of the Pacific exercise gets under way around the Hawaiian Islands.

"Some ships have already departed, and over the next couple of days, we'll shift from the harbor phase to the ‘Schedule of Events' phase, which is essentially the beginning of the period where we will be working at sea," U.S. Navy Cmdr. Charlie Brown, a RIMPAC spokesman, said Monday. Login for more...