The Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division will join Philippine army forces this summer for an exercise involving a massive movement of troops and equipment over 250 miles by air, sea and land, according to the division commander.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday awarded nearly $600,000 to 17 plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government after being sickened by jet fuel-contaminated water on Oahu in late 2021 — a fraction of the $7 million they had sought. 

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze.

The U.S. Defense Department is funding a $400 million fuel storage facility in Papua New Guinea as part of the growing military ties under a 2023 defense agreement between the two countries.

Visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, will get an extra eyeful in coming months as crews work to restore a pair of historic quays where the doomed battleship was moored on the morning of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack.

A 25-year-old Army sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for selling classified military information about weapons, aircraft and tactics to an individual believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government, the Justice Department announced that day.

The Army’s plan to renew a lease for almost 20,000 acres of state land on Hawaii’s Big Island carries significant harmful effects on biological resources, cultural practices and environmental justice, according to a final environmental impact statement.

Some special needs students attending Defense Department schools are being underserved due to staffing shortages and high turnover among special education personnel, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday.

Retired Adm. Harry Harris, a former head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said in a speech this week that the United States should abandon its policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan and instead declare outright whether it will or will not defend the island if attacked by China.

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who at 106 was believed to be the oldest surviving veteran of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, died this week in Kentucky. His death leaves just over a dozen veterans who survived the attack known to still be living.