Fort Shafter News

At his home in Marysville last week, Walter Bailey, 90, reflects on his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec.

House panel postpones decision, seeks info on Fort Lee hotel plan Dec. 11--A Congressional subcommittee responsible for reviewing the Army's plan to build a 1,000-room military hotel at Fort Lee has decided to defer a decision on the issue until the Department of Defense provides answers to a dozen questions raised by a local business group.

Maj. Gen. Bernard Champoux, who served as a deputy commander of the 25th Infantry Division in 2003 and accompanied one of its units to Afghanistan, will return to Schofield Barracks to be its next leader.

Most of us have, through the years, heard that an Army radar plotter, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, tried to warn military officials of possible danger on Sunday morning Dec.

NORTH JERSEY Here's a look at what was published in Suburban Trends between late November and early December over the years.

A number of individuals with Jackson ties have completed military training or received assignments, including: Kenneth G. Strickland graduated from the Army ROTC Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as 'Operation Warrior Forge,' at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash.

Joseph P. McDonald was a frustrated point man in the history of World War II . On Dec.

Brig. Gen. Robert B. Brown, second in command of the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks since December 2007, has been picked to become chief of staff of U.S. Army Europe and the 7th Army and deputy commanding general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Germany.

Nearly 6,000 residential homes on Oahu Army posts next year will be part of a pilot program intended to help soldiers and their families save on electrical costs.

Winter may be approaching, but Army Community Theatre's latest production is all about summer.

Read the full story at GreenerBuildings. Local and federal dignitaries celebrated the opening of a development at Fort Shafter, the U.S. Army Pacific Headquarters, that's being hailed as the greenest neighborhood on a military installation and the largest project of its kind for the Army.

For more than four years, across five Army and Marine commanders, the detention and interrogation center here has been fraught with challenges and controversies.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District has awarded a contract for architect-engineer services for the design of the future headquarters of the U.S. Army Pacific.

Colonel Jeffery Underhill never forgot where he came from, even while climbing the chain of command during a three-decade career in the U.S. Army.

On Sunday, November 8, 2009 a trio of walkers will step-off on a four-day 135-mile trek across Oahu to raise awareness and to benefit severely wounded service members and disabled veterans of the current military conflicts.

Two Army leaders in Hawaii expressed concern today for the soldiers and families affected by the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army's largest post.

Armed with federal contracts, Hawaii businesses have created or saved 250 jobs in the eight months since the creation of the economic stimulus package, according to preliminary data.

On Oct. 19, 1940, the Hawaiian Air Force was established. It activated Nov. 1, 1940, at Fort Shafter, Territory of Hawaii, and assigned to the Hawaiian Department, U. S. Army to control the growing number of air units arriving in Hawaii that year.

Two Hawaii-based brigadier Army generals have been nominated to get their second stars.

Jake Shimabukuro, the self-styled 'ukulele wizard who's easily the most popular of his generation of strummers, has launched the Chameleon Quarterly, an e-newsletter that supports the notion that Music Is Good Medicine.