The $3.4 billion project will completely replace the shipyard’s Dry Dock 3, which is unable to support the Navy’s more advanced Virginia-class submarines or larger surface ships.
The officer the Pentagon has tasked with overseeing the defueling of the Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility has for Hawaii residents in many ways become the face of the Navy.
Vice Adm. John Wade has a mixture of Navy, Army, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard service members as well as federal civilians and contractors under his command, working to remove 104 million gallons of fuel, which sits just 100 feet above a critical aquifer that most of Oahu relies on for drinking water.
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