Military

...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....

It’s a lot of bad news, says one Hawaii Democrat....

More than 60 Soldiers from the 524th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 45th Sustainment Brigade, reunited with their families here....

USPACOM's partnerships: Alaska and Mongolia; Guam, Hawaii and the Philippines;Hawaii and Indonesia....

March 19 and 20 in the UH Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom....

The council consists of 10 governors appointed by the President to focus on matters of national security, homeland defense, synchronization and integration of state and military activities in the United States and matters of mutual interest pertaining to the National Guard....

Ten years after he died in a 2004 firefight in Iraq, Sgt. Rafael Peralta's death continues to ignite controversy....

Hawaii’s political and military leaders are worried proposed cuts to the military will affect the state’s economy and national security....

Not only will the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and their families be legally invisible, they might be really gone as well....

NAVFAC and other federal agencies have issued more than 200 similar surveys requesting information about the potential use of PLAs on specific construction projects....

The Naval War College Library in Newport, R.I. will publicly unveil online the 4,000-page "Gray Book" collection of Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz communications that started in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack and ran right up until the closing days of the war....

SB2131 covers veterans' college tuition at the UH’s colleges and universities up to the in-state tuition amount...

...After discussions with VA, DOH has determined that water catchment systems may be made safe for domestic use....

...flags of the United States and State of Hawaii shall be flown at half-staff at all state offices and agencies, as well as the Hawaii National Guard, from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, the day of his memorial service....

Balli, 42, of Kapolei, was killed in an insurgent attack in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 20....

Initiatives include studies for a space exploration R&D park, international flight training center and a laser optical communications ground station in Hawaii....