Courtesy Story | United States Military Academy at West Point | 04.09.2019
Story and photos by Sgt. Quentin Johnson 205th Theater Public Affairs Support Element WEST POINT, N.Y. – Hundreds of U.S. and foreign military academy cadets gathered together for the U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute Class of 1999 Sandhurst Conference Monday....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class William J Blees | Navy Public Affairs Support Element Detachment Hawaii | 04.25.2018
Dr. Harry Davis, a researcher at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa is working with Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) to extract marine sponges from Rainbow Bay Marina to be used for Alzheimer’s and Autism research....
Story by Chief Warrant Officer Michael Kropiewnicki | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 04.16.2018
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII – Personnel from various federal, state, and local agencies are scheduled to participate in a National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) Full Scale Exercise (FSE), “Hanini Response,” Apr. 24th through 26th aboard the installation and Kaneohe Bay....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeffrey Troutman | Navy Public Affairs Support Element Detachment Hawaii | 06.27.2017
A sacred local cultural landmark was the site of a blessing and an educational visit when eight students from the University of Hawaii toured the Loko Pa’aiau fishpond at the McGrew Point Naval Housing development, June 27....
Story by Kristen Wong | U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii | 05.12.2017
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — Students from the Fire and Environmental Emergency Response program at the University of Hawaii’s Honolulu Community College came to visit U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii’s Directorate of Emergency Services’ Fire Division to meet firefighters and try out firefighter physical fitness tests, May 12....
Story by James Frisinger | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District | 04.07.2017
Pohakuloa Training Area, one of the nation’s premier military training fields, is located 6,200 feet up a plateau on Mauna Loa’s slopes, ideal for maintaining combat readiness. But every single drop of water must be transported up the mountain, said Gregory R. Fleming, the deputy garrison commander. Now a University of Hawaii research crew, tapping the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabrielle Joyner | Navy Public Affairs Support Element Detachment Hawaii | 03.13.2017
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii (NAVFAC HI), Hawaii Natural Resources Committee and Hawaii State Department of Agriculture (HDOA) hosted a tour for the Tri-State Initiative for Outreach and Communication delegation, in conjunction with the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Project at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), March 13....
Story by Kristen Wong | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 06.19.2015
Beneath the waters of Kaneohe Bay lay a large structure, covered in sea life. Ryan Harismendy, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Hawaii, described the water as “murky,” and the mound like a “giant rock.” “As your eyes adjust and you sort of go down you realize it’s too well shaped to be a rock,” Harismendy said. “Then you start identifying (parts like) a window and......
