Military

...Hawaii guardsmen help the recovery effort by assessing the damage and reporting to civil authorities, and by clearing the roadways....

... the Navy is paying $0.44 per kwh ....

Former MCAS Ewa Field is an especially unique battlefield that has been officially recognized....

House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise Wednesday on a Veterans Affairs health care reform bill....

...he is accused of repeatedly molesting a 13-year-old boy, and has been held in the state prison facility since February....

...Matson and Horizon improperly billed the U.S. Department of Defense, costing $2 million a year in damages....

...candidates running for the open seat in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District attended this forum....

...operating within the United States 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone around Hawaii, but not within the 12-nautical-mile territorial seas....

...the ACT Now for Veterans bill (H.R. 5131) to direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reimburse non-VA medical providers who provide care to eligible veterans....

Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, is being awarded $334,135,534 for firm-fixed-price task order....

The new VA Secretary needs to quickly understand the serious depth of the problems facing the VA in Hawaii....

Beijing’s participation comes at a time of significant regional tension....

Under the most severe scenario, Schofield would lose about 16,000 employees, leaving 2,441 on base....

One hundred and eighty-eight Soldiers from the 65th Engineer Battalion ....

No other VA site is over 100 days, the next-worst is Fayetteville, NC with a 91-day wait time for new patients....

...Pfeffer should be fired due to his dishonesty, lack of integrity, incompetence, and his flagrant lack of respect and transparency when dealing with those to whom he is ultimately accountable....

“Getting choice is the holy grail of this reform,” said Pete Hegseth, chief executive officer of Concerned Veterans for America....

“They are a threat to the safety and security of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s up to those two countries to make the decision...." -- Hillary Clinton

...some 64,000 veterans enrolled in the system for at least 10 years have yet to see a doctor....

"...I applaud the recent Senate compromise action reached between Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) to allow vets access to private healthcare providers...."

Ohana Military Communities and Forrest City Residential Management are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed April 3....

More than 100 Soldiers from the 130th Engineer Brigade's headquarters reunited with their families here yesterday....

"...immediately allow our veterans to use their VA identification card to obtain medical care through the private health care system, with the VA paying the bill...."

Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....

"Sec. Shinseki's resignation, however, does not fix the underlying failures at the VA."

If anyone is looking for evidence that Faleomavaega really has lost his mind, perhaps his reaction to the growing Veterans Affairs crisis is providing it....

Only some of each president’s speeches are billed as “major,” and today’s is one of them....

The director of VA's Sierra Pacific Network, Sheila M. Cullen falsely claimed in "numerous official documents" that Bernard M. Baruch College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine awarded her a master's degree she never earned....

I was at the airport with my family on Friday evening, when we noticed Schofield-based soldiers heading for Afghanistan....

For myself and many other veterans, Memorial Day is encapsulated in one unforgettable experience....

NOTE: Flags to fly at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day....

The problems emerging from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are deeper than corruption and mismanagement....

"I join the Obama administration in urging Thailand’s armed forces to return power to democratic institutions.”

Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony at 10 a.m., Monday, at the Post Cemetery....

...During the test, a simulated ballistic missile target was acquired, tracked and engaged by the Aegis Weapon System. At approximately 7:35 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time....

Americans have increasingly been pulled into the frightening story of more than 250 schoolgirls in Nigeria who were kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram....

The CMRE mission focuses on tracking, sorting and recovering Army equipment from across Afghanistan....

House Republicans are moving to set up a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks....

...In the midst of these world crises—and a U.S. military readiness crisis—we have a president who questions “the efficacy and even legitimacy of American power”....

Here’s a disturbing new idea from some members of Congress....

To see what coverage of the delegation looks like in a newspaper which does not worship at the shrine of home-state congressional seniority, readers must turn to the Wall Street Journal....

The 536th SMC conducted a number of unique missions during their deployment, to include partnering with multinational forces in Regional-Command East...

...the Pentagon is eliminating the Hawaii-based Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command and the Washington-based Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office — and creating a new single agency....

The three-day program will highlight information warfare and cyber activities; leveraging training with technology; partnerships with nongovernmental organizations; humanitarian assistance and disaster response; and changes, challenges and opportunities in the Pacific strategic security environment....

We can only hope that after 12 years of continuous military engagement, the U.S. military and the Hawaii ‘ohana may begin a period of peace....

The Chapter Launch Ceremony will be held at the Hale Koa Hotel, 2055 Kalia Road, Honolulu, on Friday, April 4, 2014.....

...an AHW was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, and arrived 30 minutes later at the Reagan Test Site, U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands -- a distance of about 2,500 miles....