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The 25th Combat Aviation Brigade will conduct “aviation mission survivability” training within the Schofield Barracks East Range, the Army said. Read more
A 61-year-old male complained of abdominal pain aboard a sailboat anchored about 200 feet from shore in Makua Bay, an official said. Read more
Cpl. Wilfred K. Hussey Jr. volunteered for Army service in July 1949 just a month after he graduated from Hilo High School. Read more
Pearl Harbor warships are seeing their share of Chinese man-made islands in the South China Sea, with the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer recently conducting the sixth U.S. Navy “freedom of navigation” operation near the contested isles this year — angering China every time. Read more
A total of $32 million for security improvements to the back gate of Marine Corps Base Hawaii and an Air Force training facility at Hickam Field is being diverted for President Donald Trump’s border wall, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Read more
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has approved the creation of the first-ever Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Hawaii after many years of interest, U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz announced Wednesday. Read more
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has approved the creation of the first-ever Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa after many years of interest, U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz announced today. Read more
The two projects are among 127 military construction projects in the country and overseas to be cut for the border wall extension. Read more
Despite a new study saying America has lost its “military primacy” in the Indo- Pacific due to a focus on the Middle East while China advanced its military capability, the head of Pacific Air Forces on Oahu said the United States still has the advantage. Read more
Albert Nakama remembers the Vosges Mountains and how cold it was in late 1944 when his unit, L Company of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, reached northeastern France in World War II. Read more
A Pearl Harbor destroyer conducted at least the fifth Navy “freedom of navigation” operation this year in the South China Sea. Read more
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, back on the campaign trail after 15 days of duty with the Hawaii National Guard, said Thursday she won’t run as an independent if she doesn’t win the Democratic presidential nomination. Read more
Four F-22 Raptor fighters roared off the reef runway at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Wednesday morning, tracing a near vertical path skyward that quickly took them to 16,000 feet before heading over Oahu for training north of the island. Read more
For the first time in 15 months, visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial on Sunday will be able to step foot on the iconic memorial to the bitter loss and valiant defense of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Read more
Until the memorial reopens, visitors can still visit the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center’s two free museums and participate in ticketed programs. Read more
The long wait for the USS Arizona Memorial to reopen to walk-on visits is ending soon, with a new anchoring system drilled firmly into the seafloor to keep a formerly wayward floating access dock in place, officials say. Read more
In a rare double commissioning, two new 418-foot Coast Guard national security cutters were ceremoniously brought to life and officially entered service in Honolulu Saturday. Read more
A Chinese national was taken into custody Thursday at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu after he was caught in a government sting allegedly attempting to smuggle prohibited technology back to China, including a radiation-hardened programmable memory device designed for battle or space. Read more
A state Circuit Court judge correctly ruled that the Department of Land and Natural Resources breached its trust duties to care for ceded lands at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii island used by the military, the Hawaii Supreme Court determined Friday. Read more
The National Park Service reinstalled a 30-foot, 4-ton bridge to the USS Arizona Memorial this week, and on Thursday put back in a zigzag visitor ramp on the 105-foot floating concrete dock that serves as the disembarkation point for walk- on visits to the memorial. Read more