Military

I can't think of a single local family that doesn't have multiple service members in it....

...Today, I've been thinking about an Afghan man who I had the privilege of knowing in Afghanistan....

...providing our veterans with adequate benefits such as quality health care and help with housing and education upon re-entering civilian life....

...Washington could find itself strategically outflanked....

...leadership and staff consistently reported difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees due to the cost of living, distance, and isolation of island life....

S.J.Res.39 is expected to go to the floor for a vote today in the Senate....

...a comprehensive bill to help ensure that veterans like Roy Hall get the benefits they've earned....

In his latest ad, Caldwell attempts to politicize 9/11....

"Colonel Ostrov is exactly the kind of woman that we must elect to the U.S. Congress," retired Rear Adm. James J. Carey, NDPAC chair, said....

...for professionals who work with veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury, and substance use disorders....

...VA Drops Millions on Delayed Solar Power Projects....

This partnership, which had previously been “under the radar,” is designed to exclude community input as well as input in particular from Hawaiian cultural practitioners....

the USS GERALD R FORD (CVN-78) is far behind schedule, not ready for deployment, and may need to be redesigned....

...one of the rare people in public life who actually showed political courage to do the right thing when literally not one of his colleagues had the guts to join him....

“It’s unusual now, only because they haven’t done it in a while,”....

On my mind today is 1LT Timothy Steele....

...the missiles have been in service for more than 25 years, and each of them is able to carry ten megaton class nuclear warheads at a distance of more than 11,000 kilometers....

... Justice Department has demanded the arrest, condemnation and sale of the tugboat Maulani, which snagged an undersea cable in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and shut down the Electronic Harbor Security System ....

She is a new face to Hawaii politics, but she is no stranger to the arena in Washington, DC, where she served as a Congressional liaison for the U.S. Transportation Command....

...the bill forces young women between the ages of 18 and 26 to sign up for the Selective Service, making them eligible for conscription if Congress reinstates the draft....

...the average officer is only 47 years old upon retirement from service....

...Memorial Day Commemorations Statewide....

The results are pretty bad, according to a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta....

Fifteen veterans have now successfully completed the First Circuit program since it was initiated by Judge Edward Kubo in 2013....

The LCS program is indicative of the problems with U.S. shipbuilding both military and commercial with high costs, poor quality and an inability to deliver on schedule....

The Japanese government in 2009 recognized that accepting such an apology would undermine the foundations of the US-Japan alliance. Just look at how the 1993 Apology Resolution has undermined the foundations of the State of Hawaii.

...While resolutions and proclamations such as these may seem to be a cheap and easy way to score campaign contributions, they can take a toll....

...North Korea appears relentless; and will continue test after nuclear test, before it perfects its missile capability....

...SCOTUS ruling confirms “one person one vote” standard for states....

Ancestral landowners in Guam who claim they were never fully compensated for property confiscated during World War II will have their day in court....

In response to recent provocative actions taken by China in the South China Sea....

The Veterans Treatment Court of the First Circuit teamed up with community service providers....

"...the southeast section of the Site Area is coterminous with (has the same boundaries as) a designated explosive dumping area...."

Finally its importance in helping to win the Pacific PSY-WAR against Japan in WW-II can be revealed....

...Pfeffer was not on the job today after sending an email to the VA staff around noon Tuesday....

The LCS were originally projected to cost around US $90 million each in 2001, when the program was being conceived. Bloomberg reported in January 2016 the LCS have cost on average about $440 million each....

...the Washington Post published that North Korea’s missile test was an example of President Barack Obama’s failed policy of strategic patience with North Korea....

Three KC-135 Stratotankers belonging to the 203rd Air Refueling Squadron, along with flight and maintenance crews and other support personnel....

"Implementation of the selected action will not result in significant impacts."

...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....

...as a result of a collaboration between and the Department of Veterans Affairs Pacific Island Health Care System, Partners in Care, and the Homeless Veterans Task Force....

...hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that are being wasted on biofuels....

Families on the mainland are coming forward, saying their loved ones are among the missing Marines....

A primary rationale for the domestic ship build requirement of Jones Act cabotage – which requires commercial vessels in coastwise service be built in the US. -- is to support Naval shipbuilding capacity....

The U.S. Supreme Court is now considering that question in a Texas case in which Hawaii’s decades-long exclusion of active-duty military and families from the body politic is front and center....

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two election law cases, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, and Harris v. Arizona Ind. Redistricting Comm'n, No. 14-232....

17 megawatts of solar facilities on three separate military installations on Oahu....