Posts Categorized: O’ahu

The Sinking of the Ehime Maru: Remembering to Forget

The Honolulu Star Advertiser reported that a group of students from Ehime, Japan paid respects to the victims of the sinking of the Ehime Maru by the USS Greenville submarine: Seventeen students and three teachers from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime prefecture in Japan paid their respects yesterday to the victims of a tragedy… Read more »

Kaneohe Marine arrested in the stabbing of fellow Marine

Kaneohe Marine arrested in the stabbing of fellow Marine By Star-Advertiser staff POSTED: 09:38 p.m. HST, Oct 11, 2010 Police arrested a 21-year-old Kaneohe Marine on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing a 27-year-old fellow Marine in Kailua early this morning. Police said the younger man allegedly stabbed the older man with a… Read more »

Beware the ‘Angels’

From Richard Hamasaki on Facebook: Beware the angels…the Blue Angels whose deadly emissions in the form of “vapor” will rain down poison on land and sea as their noxious clouds spew the venom of war and literally envelop all of Ko’olau Poko from Kailua to Ahuimanu to Kualoa-Hakipu’u, from Ulumawao to Kapapa to Mokoli’i. Take… Read more »

Army sergeant allegedly killed in fight near stip club

Police arrest Salt Lake man for alleged murder near strip club Victim was a noncommissioned officer at Tripler Detectives arrested a 23-year-old Salt Lake man this morning for investigation of second-degree murder in connection with an early morning fight Sunday that left a 35-year-old Army sergeant and father dead on Kapiolani Boulevard. READ MORE

Military man arrested for choking wife over crying baby

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/102354229.html Fight over crying baby leads to alleged domestic violence By Star-Advertiser Staff POSTED: 06:40 a.m. HST, Sep 07, 2010 An argument over a crying baby escalated into violence and the arrest of a 28-year-old man in the Catlin Park military housing complex Sunday night, police said. The fight started when a husband and wife… Read more »

Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies to expand

The Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) is a Department of Defense academy for heads of state, government officials and most of all, military leaders from the Asia Pacific region to get training in security issues.  After the Indonesian military massacred independence supporters in East Timor following a plebiscite, the U.S. cut of military… Read more »

Windward Residents Sound Off Against Military Fleet

Source:  http://www.kitv.com/news/24780183/detail.html Windward Residents Sound Off Against Military Fleet Noise Increase Tops Concerns POSTED: 9:52 pm HST August 26, 2010 HONOLULU — The military is proposing to move-in 24 Osprey aircrafts to the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, along with 18 Cobra attack choppers and nine Huey helicopters. On Thursday night, windward residents spoke… Read more »

Navy refuses to allow public testimony at EIS Scoping meeting on Navy Expansion plans

Jim Albertini of Malu ‘Aina sent the following report from the Navy public scoping meetings in Hilo regarding planned expansion of its training and range complex in the Pacific.  The new control tactic of the military has been to use stations with information and subject matter “experts” to answer questions rather than hold public hearings… Read more »

Who pulled Conley’s trigger? – Violent Cases In Hawaii Involving PTSD Patients Likely To Increase

The recent apparent double-murder-suicide by former National Guardsman Clayborne Conley, who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, underscores the human cost of the wars. Conley may have pulled the trigger that killed Kristine Cass, Saundra Cass and himself, but who pulled Conley’s trigger?  And will they be held accountable?… Read more »

New ‘Star Wars’ missile defense and satellite communications center finished in Wahiawa

Source: http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/101248944.html $25M Navy satellite center passes muster in Wahiawa By Star-Advertiser staff POSTED: 09:44 p.m. HST, Aug 21, 2010 The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii said it completed final building inspections for a $25.4 million satellite communications center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Wahiawa Annex. The Army’s 53rd Signal Battalion will use the new… Read more »