24 May 2016 Editor’s Note: Yeah, you can’t tell where the Daily is going to wind up on any particular morning. Yesterday we completed the agenda of events that will happen in Oahu to commemorate the Battle of Midway in 1942. I am proud to have been a 7th Fleet sailor in my time, and […]

Battle of Midway 07 JUN Formal Ceremony at PACFLT HQ When: 07 June 2016,1000-1100 Where: Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Building 250 Flagpole, Makalapa Crater Dress: Military- Summer Whites (Navy) Other: Duty uniform. Civilian: Aloha smart casual Questions to LTJG Manpreet Hotelling 474-4442 manpreet.hotelling@navy.mil They say that time heals all wounds. Ancient enemies can become friends, as […]

06 June 2016 NIP Battle of Midway Week Social at Historic Hickam Officer’s Club Our newest NIP chapter extends the warm spirit aloha to former JICPAC Commander and PACOM J2 RADM Paul Becker as he returns to the lovely islands! Following the opportunity to tour the site of Station HYPO at Building 1 at the […]

Battle of Midway Week, Pearl Harbor: 06 JUN Station HYPO Tour! (Steps down to the Dungeon at Building 1, Pearl Harbor Navy Shipyard. Photo Socotra). Rarely opened to the public, on the sixth of June (D-Day’s 72nd anniversary elsewhere) Station HYPOs hallowed spaces will be open for viewing! Seventy-four years ago, the last air attacks of […]

04 JUN 2016 The commemoration of Battle of Midway Week continues in Pearl Harbor: On the morning of the 4th of June, 1942, the round-the-clock efforts of CDR Joe Rochefort’s code-breakers in The Dungeon in the basement of the 14th Naval District Headquarters in Pearl Harbor paid off. The compelling estimate of Japanese intentions provides […]

Battle of Midway Week: Midway Atoll Murals Unveiling Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor (The Midway Murals illustrate the broad mission sweep of Naval forces in the Pacific (clockwise from top left) with major surface combatants, JFK’s Patrol Torpedo Boat, aircraft carriers, CB construction efforts, Marine amphibious operations and the Silent Service). Battle of Midway Week […]

18 May 2016 Gentle Readers: I got in from Vegas last night and the Time Zone Trainwreck has hit me like a freight. Nice little place they have out there. With great pals and extended family, and the possibility that the Raiders and a hockey team are coming, and where the bars are open 24 […]