07 December 2024 Forging Ahead: Pearl Harbor Day Ceremony Honors Past, Passes Legacy to Young Service Members On the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day in 2021, about 135 World War II veterans attended the observance of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Last year, fewer than 30 veterans attended Dec. 7 events...
26 October 2024 Recently Promoted Admiral Shares How Hawaiian Values and Mentors Shaped His Leadership Mahelona was recently promoted to Rear Admiral, Lower Half, becoming only the third Native Hawaiian to achieve the rank. He follows in the footsteps of Adm. Gordon Paiea Chung-Hoon and Vice Adm. Robert Kihune, who presided over Mahelona’s promotion ceremony on Oct. 5 aboard the Battleship Missouri...
21 August 2024 Space Force Supports Maui Firefighters In a rapid response to a wildfire on Maui’s Haleakalā in July, the U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific Headquarters provided valuable and timely commercial analytics to local government officials and first responders...
14 August 2024 U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Visits HIANG 154th Force Support Squadron Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, visited Hawai'i Air National Guard service members from the 154th Force Support Squadron on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawai'i, on Aug. 12, 2024. ...
13 June 2024 613 Air Operations Center strengthens ties with Japan’s Air Defense Command in landmark agreement In a move aimed at bolstering bilateral cooperation, the U.S. Air Force 613th Air Operations Center has signed an agreement with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Air Defense Command at Pacific Air Forces Headquarters...
09 November 2015 SECDEF Carter bids “Aloha” to JBPHH, Indo-Asian Pacific region JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Oahu, Hawaii -- In his last stop before leaving Hawaii, United States Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter held a “troop talk” with the United States Air Force, U.S. Army, Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and the Coast Guard here, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015.The event, which was...