Asia correspondent with Stars and Stripes newspaper, Hawaii bureau
Honolulu, HI
Joined July 2012
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The Navy has decommissioned 2 of its few remaining Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, even as their potential replacements are still on the drawing board.
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"That is what Mr. Trump is counting on. He wins not by persuading us that the conduct is acceptable, but by wearing us out until we no longer object. ... What is being broken is not this standard or that one; it’s the idea that standards apply."
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America’s troops must prepare now for possible future warfare on moon, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says.
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Pentagon's MIA recovery agency plans to exhume, identify Korean War remains in Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington as part of a larger effort to ID unknowns buried in Punchbowl cemetery in Honolulu.
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This was a serious question that warranted a serious reply.
U.S. Admiral Samuel J. Paparo was just asked if he would follow an order from President Donald Trump to invade Canada.
He dismissed the question as "needlessly emotional," and didn't answer the reporter.
"I follow the orders of the president," he said.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada for over a year.
(Full credit to the reporter for pushing him on this).
Writer Eve Fairbanks in The Atlantic finds the perfect words to describe the distinctive tone of AI slop "stories" that I now see filling Facebook's timelines: "breezy and grandiose."
96-year-old Army, Air Force veteran Earl Wisener has appealed the VA's denial of his claim over military files that were destroyed in 1973 national archives fire.
stripes.com/veterans/2025-12…
The 25th Infantry Division is showing off its leaner, more mobile formation during large-scale drills in Hawaii.
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NYT: "In March, [China] announced plans to set up a $138B venture capital fund to support start-ups focused on strategic technologies such as quantum computing, semiconductors and A.I. The Trump administration, by contrast, has slashed billions of dollars in research funding."
The Army is leaving families in limbo with the suspension of in-progress PCS moves during the government shutdown.
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First of Coast Guard’s new icebreaking cutters to be made in Finland
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USS Arizona Memorial ready again for visitors after workers completed project to remove aging platforms welded to ship during post-attack salvaging operations during WWII.
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Defense Department agency identifies missing remains of Medal of Honor recipient killed in 1945 in Philippines.
stripes.com/veterans/2025-09…
For the commander of U.S. INDOPACOM, homeland defense extends across the Pacific.
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The Air Force has suspended its plan to land cargo rockets on the remote Pacific Johnston Atoll and is considering other sites on which to build landing pads. The plan had garnered opposition by environmental groups.
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Enough is enough: 87-year-old disabled vet arrested protesting outside Capitol night before Army parade
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Hawaii-based soldier Dewayne Johnson pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his wife and unborn child in a rage-filled machete attack.
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"Republicans on the House Rules Committee moved again to block a vote on rolling back Donald Trump’s tariffs Monday in their latest effort to protect the president’s authority over global trade." -Politico
The lawlessness continues. "Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication."
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