Kevin Knodell reports on military affairs, veterans, security and diplomacy in Hawaii and the greater Pacific for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He is an alum of Report For America, a nonprofit that places journalists in local newsrooms to cover underreported topics. As a freelance correspondent he has reported from the frontlines in the Syrian conflict, wildfires in the American west and covered Iraqi Kurdistan's nightlife.
His writing and photography have appeared in The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy Magazine, Playboy, The Nib, Coffee or Die Magazine, Vice and others. He is the co-author of the graphic novels Machete Squad and The 'Stan.'
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For three months members of the Pearl Harbor-based Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One worked inside the Navy’s contaminated Red Hill water well, becoming unlikely front-line responders to the crisis.
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Aug. 2, 2022
As the Rim of the Pacific exercise began wrapping up this week, Marines and soldiers from nine countries stormed Pyramid Rock on Monday morning at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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Aug. 1, 2022
At this year’s Rim of the Pacific Exercise, Latin America’s interests in the Pacific have taken on new significance. For the first time in the history of the biennial exercise, every country on South America’s Pacific Coast has sent service members to participate.
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July 30, 2022
As the Pacific Fleet begins to wrap up Exercise Rim of the Pacific, the U.S. Navy League’s Honolulu Council has scheduled its third iteration of the Indo- Pacific Maritime Exchange at the Hawai‘i Convention Center for Thursday and Friday.
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July 28, 2022
Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, both in their late 60s and who allegedly lived for decades under the names Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague, respectively, were arrested Friday at their home in Kapolei.
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July 27, 2022
Investigators allegedly recovered “1,950 images, videos and documents related to white power groups, Nazi literature, brutality towards the Jewish community, brutality towards women, rape, mass murderers,” along with “violent uncensored executions and/or rape” and “previous mass murderers such as Dylan Roof.”
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July 25, 2022
A woman was injured Sunday morning while swimming close to a nursing Hawaiian monk seal and her pup at Kaimana Beach in Waikiki.
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July 23, 2022
As Rim of the Pacific 2022 moves into its next stage, military leaders are looking to the future of the exercise along with how to continue the international relationships built during the world’s largest naval war game.
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July 21, 2022
As drought grips the island nation of Kiribati south of Hawaii, Honolulu-based Coast Guardsmen have been making deliveries of potable drinking water and other supplies.
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July 19, 2022
On Monday afternoon at a mock village near Bellows Beach, a force of Tongan marines made its way down a narrow alleyway between two homes. As they emerged they began taking fire as blank rounds rang out.
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July 18, 2022
U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro is in Hawaii this week to observe Rim of the Pacific exercises as the first step of a multinational tour of the Pacific.
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July 17, 2022
Two “critically stable” patients were evacuated from the ship by helicopter, and transported to a hospital on Oahu.
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July 16, 2022
Among those buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific are World War I veteran-turned-war reporter Ernie Pyle; Hawaii astronaut Ellison Onizuka, who died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986; and Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye.
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July 15, 2022
As part of this year’s iteration of the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific, local hospitals are teaming up with the military to practice responding to a large-scale humanitarian disaster.
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July 14, 2022
The Philippine navy’s newest ship is participating in the biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific off Hawaii. The guided-missile frigate BRP Antonio Luna, commissioned in March 2021, departed Pearl Harbor Tuesday as one of the 38 ships participating this year in the world’s largest recurring naval war game.
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July 12, 2022
As Navy ships from around the world begin sailing out of Pearl Harbor for the biennial exercise Rim of the Pacific, members of the Coast Guard’s Sector Honolulu are prepping for their own contributions to the war game exercise.
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July 9, 2022
RIMPAC 2022 is the largest iteration of what has become the largest recurring naval exercise in the world. Twenty-six countries are participating in this year’s exercise, which is hosted by the U.S. Navy’s Hawaii-based Pacific Fleet.
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July 7, 2022
As sailors from around the world train in Hawaii at the biennial Rim of the Pacific training exercise, climate change is taking center stage for several planners.
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July 6, 2022
At this year’s iteration of RIMPAC, participants are holding their first cyberwarfare symposium as part of the biennial naval war game.
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July 5, 2022
The officer who organized the Army’s initial response to contamination of the Navy’s water system from a spill at the Red Hill fuel storage facility is now a general. Col. Phillip “Cain” Baker, the 25th Infantry Division’s deputy commander for support, was promoted to brigadier general Friday in a small ceremony at the Schofield Barracks attended by family and friends.
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July 2, 2022
Sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy celebrated Canada Day in Pearl Harbor on Friday after sailing across the Pacific.
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