Kevin Knodell

The biennial Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest recurring naval exercise, has returned to Hawaii in what commanders are calling the largest iteration of the war game to date.

As the biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise gets underway, participants are holding meetings and getting set up for operations across Hawaii.

Soldiers participate in RIMPAC exercises and go through urban combat scenarios at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, and at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the Makapu Peninsula on Saturday.

Wilbert “Willy” Toda, one of the last surviving nisei veterans in Hawaii who served during World War II, died June 22, surrounded by his family. He was 99.

Sterling Kanoa Beair served as an Army combat medic in Iraq. He excelled in the military, attaining the rank of staff sergeant and earning accolades from his comrades and superiors.

Sterling Kanoa Beair served as an Army combat medic in Iraq. He excelled in the military, attaining the rank of staff sergeant and earning accolades from his comrades and superiors. But he also carrie...

Aboard the Philippine navy ship BRP Miguel Malvar on Wednesday night, prominent members of Honolulu’s Filipino community rubbed shoulders with military personnel and diplomats as they wined and dined on its deck as it sat docked in Pearl Harbor before it and its crew set sail to join other warships participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise.

Last month the Navy’s History and Heritage Command announced that it had confirmed the final resting place of the USS Herring, an American submarine that went missing during a World War II combat patrol near Japan.

A growing chorus of local and national organizations is calling on Gov. Josh Green to recall Hawaii National Guardsmen dispatched to Washington, D.C.

State and federal officials are insisting that 27 Hawaii National Guardsmen deployed to Washington, D.C., remain there only to support events celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary after contradictory messages this week from Hawaii leaders and the task force in Washington the troops are working under.