HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 21 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: On Jan. 27, 2020, United Airlines Flight 200 from Tamuning, Guam. to Honolulu, Hawaii, started off as any other ordinary flight across the Pacific. However, when a medical emergency emerged, this routine flight quickly "went south." First Officer Christopher Stokes, who is also a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve assigned to U.S. Indo-Pacom and Capt. Tom Roth, the pilots on the Boeing 777, were notified   more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST). The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. Concurrently, the Missile Defense  more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: Associates at Defense Logistics Agency Maritime Pearl Harbor welcomed DLA Land and Maritime Commander Navy Rear Adm. John T. Palmer Feb. 26-28. The detachment is one of several around the United States helmed by the Central Ohio-based logistics center. During his visit to Hawaii, Palmer met with several key leaders, visited with the workforce and attended the  more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, March 19 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: After careful consideration and coordination with participating nations, Pacific Air Forces has cancelled Red Flag-Alaska 20-1 scheduled for April 30 to May 15 at Eielson Air Force Base and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The decision to cancel follows Department of Defense travel restrictions on domestic travel implemented on 16 March in response to the ongoing outbreak of COVI  more

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, March 21 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: The 1984th United States Army Hospital-Pacific, under the 9th Mission Support Command, headquartered in Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, is partnering with the University of Hawaii, Manoa, to host a three-day leadership camp focusing on preventive health for the youth population of Palau on June 3-5, 2020. Palau is an island country in the western Pacific Ocean, almost 5,000 miles from Hawaii with a p  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release on March 16: * * * - Watershed groups in Alaska and Hawaii receive their first funding, joining other groups in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming * * * The Bureau of Reclamation has selected 29 projects to receive $2.8 million to complete watershed group development, watershed restoration planning and watershed managem  more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, March 17 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: The first-ever Oxford-Style Debate occurred on Joint base Pearl Harbor-Hickam between the 65th Airlift Squadron and the 56th Air and Space Communications Squadron Feb. 29. Debates afford Airmen a platform to discuss Air Force subjects and also learn how to articulate in an official manner rather than in a one-on-one discussion where neither side may benefit. "The debate allows Airmen to   more

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii, March 21 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Honolulu District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) signed a feasibility cost-share agreement (FCSA) with Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands government March 9 to authorize civil works studies to be accomplished utilizing funding provided in Public Law 116-20, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Act, 2019, signed into law June 6, 2019. Honolulu District   more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, March 19 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: After being deployed 80 or more days and spending 14 days getting the LC-130 Hercules ready, the Airmen assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, Stratton Air National Guard Base, New York, departed from here to return to their home unit. The Airmen were deployed in support of Operation DEEP FREEZE. Operation DEEP FREEZE (ODF) is a joint service, inter-agency support for the National Science F  more