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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Dec. 4, 2019
The men of daring and bravery who 78 years ago defended Oahu and fought through the world war that followed are faithfully returning to remember Pearl Harbor and the lives that were lost or forever altered in the deadliest conflict in history.
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Nov. 30, 2019
Interoperability training among the nation’s armed forces is occurring in Hawaii on an unprecedented scale — and China is the reason, defense experts say.
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Nov. 26, 2019
The Navy and Hawaiian Electric Co. marked a land-for-power-upgrades swap with the dedication Monday of the 80,760-panel, 20-megawatt West Loch Solar Project — the latest of an ever-increasing number of solar farms helping to march Hawaii toward its goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 25, 2019
The retired rear admiral selected by President Donald Trump to be the next secretary of the Navy started his operational career at Naval Air Station Barbers Point in 1986 flying anti-submarine missions in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.
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Nov. 24, 2019
A new Hawaii air charter service said it plans to bring 15 HondaJet Elites to Oahu for luxury interisland travel and statewide air ambulance service.
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Nov. 21, 2019
Chief Warrant Officer Kirk T. Fuchigami Jr., an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot, was from Keaau.
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- By Gordon Y.K. Pang gordonpang@staradvertiser.com and William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 20, 2019
Acting city prosecuting attorney Dwight Nadamoto said today he will comply with a federal subpoena as investigators continue to look into the prosecutor’s office.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 20, 2019
Some Ewa Beach residents are concerned that a Marine Corps plan to install 1,500 feet of steel barrier to protect part of the oceanfront Puuloa Range Training Facility from beach erosion could create new problems for residents on either end.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 17, 2019
An opening ceremony will be held Monday on Hawaii island for a military exercise with China that will involve about 100 People’s Liberation Army soldiers training alongside U.S. Army counterparts.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 14, 2019
An Arizona crew that once numbered 1,512 is now down to three. Survivors Lou Conter and Ken Potts are both 98. Don Stratton is 97.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 14, 2019
The group includes the amphibious assault ship Boxer, amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha, and the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry.
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Nov. 12, 2019
Veterans of war joined with service members who have followed in their footsteps to honor those gone at a ceremony at Punchbowl cemetery Monday.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 11, 2019
The 1st Battalion, 487th Field Artillery soldiers have a mission known as “counter-rocket, artillery, mortar,” or C-RAM for short, using a weapon system that shoots down incoming enemy rockets with a rapid-fire pulse of 20-mm rounds.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 8, 2019
A nonprofit air museum built on Naval Air Station Barbers Point’s 57-year history is being evicted from state airport land over long-standing contract issues.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 6, 2019
Two years ago the Army’s 25th Infantry Division was poised to deploy to the Korean Peninsula as war preparations ramped up.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 5, 2019
A Navy submariner who was fatally shot through the locked front door at a frightened neighbor’s house in 2018 “did not kick the door, bang on it, yell, or otherwise show aggressive behavior,” according to a Navy “line of duty” investigation that found no misconduct.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 4, 2019
The Hawaii Air National Guard is expected to take on a new space mission with the Air Force announcing that the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai is the preferred location for a Pacific-based space control squadron, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz’s office said today.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Nov. 3, 2019
The boat spreads a message of peace, retracing its 1958 anti-nuke Pacific sail.
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Nov. 1, 2019
He was the first Coast Guardsman to become a prisoner of war since the War of 1812 and the last known recoverable fallen Coast Guard service member from World War II, according to officials.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Oct. 29, 2019
In a first for the Navy, a quadcopter drone was flown more than a mile from shore on Oahu to deliver a 5-pound payload of circuit cards, medical supplies and food items to the submarine USS Hawaii in a potentially radical new way to provide logistics resupply of small items to subs at sea, officials said.
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- By William Cole wcole@staradvertiser.com
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Oct. 25, 2019
The remains of 81 unidentified South Vietnamese soldiers were kept in Hawaii for decades.
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