The Satellite Operations Brigade’s Regional Satellite Support Center-Pacific supported humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts for Cyclone Yasa, which battered Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island, Dec. 17.
20 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI. – Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division executed an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) training mission Dec. 9-10, which culminated with the unit air assaulting into Kauai, Hawaii, and conducting a mission to eliminate a small group of rebel forces and secure an international airport.
The purpose of the exercise was to rehearse and evaluate the battalion’s ability to deploy on short notice as part of the 3rd IBCT’s Immediate Response Force.
The scope of the exercise was to have an Immediate Response Company (IRC) from 2-35 IN go through the entire process of being alerted, going through the outload stations on Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, deploy to a distant location, and conduct a mission at an unfamiliar location.
Hawaii radar gets $133M in big government spending bill [The Honolulu Star-Advertiser]
Dec. 24 The $1.4 trillion government spending bill passed by Congress on Monday which was then thrown into uncertainty by President Donald Trump on Tuesday includes $133 million for a controversial Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii, $6 million for the USS Arizona Memorial, and $363 million in military and national security projects in Hawaii.
The projects are among dozens benefiting Hawaii in the legislation, said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat.
In a video posted to twitter Tuesday, Trump called the tandem $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure a “disgrace, ” but seemed to conflate it with the $1.4 trillion omnibus appropriations package that funds the government.
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“They’re Killing My Boys!”: the History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941, J.Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John Di Virgolio, 2019, ISBN 9781682474587, 272 pp.
“They’re Killing My Boys!”: the History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941 by J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio
“They’re Killing My Boys!” is the third title (the previous two books were reviewed in the previous posts) of a trilogy centered upon the disastrous series of attacks by the Japanese Empire bringing the U.S. directly into World War II. The authors create a unique approach, as well, by researching the details of a myriad of individual actions both U.S. and Japanese and knitting them into the tapestry of the actions at Hickam Army Air Field on 7 December 1941. The three authors collectively possess expertise and proficiency beyond most indivi