A group of Army, Marine Corps and Air Force engineers recently spent a week in Hawaii honing a joint-force approach to rapidly repairing airfields damaged by war or disaster.
The Hawaii Department of Health has given the Navy the go-ahead to reactivate a groundwater well near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that has been dormant since a 2021 jet fuel spill at the Red Hill storage facility.
The Navy has issued a final environmental impact statement in its quest to retain leases for 8,172 acres of Hawaii state land on Kauai island that support the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
VanAntwerp most recently commanded U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific headquartered in Hawaii. He was a company commander in the 25th ID’s Stryker brigade combat team at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., and in Iraq from 2004 to 2006.
The biennial Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise in Hawaii wrapped up, with personnel from the 30 participating nations completing more than 500 drills, flying 2,400 sorties and sinking two decommissioned warships.
This year’s Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise will include more than two dozen experiments with unmanned systems and the sinking of two derelict ships.
The National Park Service announced the first public tours of Honouliuli National Historic Site, offering visitors access to the site of a prisoner-of-war and internment camp on Oahu that remained largely forgotten for decades after World War II.
Col. Jeremy Beaven handed off command of Marine Corps Base Hawaii and recalled the lessons he learned from dealing with the aftermath of a Navy recon plane overshooting the runway and crashing into Kaneohe Bay in 2023.
