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Chosin beats Key West Shellz on last-second shot
Story and photo by Randy Dela Cruz Sports Editor Logistics Specialist 1st Class Charles Nieves sank a game-tying shot at the buzzer and a game-winning free throw with zero seconds on the clock to give USS Chosin (CG 65) a nail-biting 31-30 win over USS Key West (SSN 722) Shellz in a season-opening Afloat League [...]
Armed Services Blood Program seeks donors
Tripler Army Medical Center Blood Donor Center has scheduled upcoming blood drives. As part of the Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP), the official United States military blood program, a donation serves as a vital link to military service members and their families worldwide. The drives include: * Feb. 15 at Space and Naval Warfare Systems [...]
Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor requests volunteers for education, airplanes
Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s Education Department has new student education and tour programs for 2012 and requests volunteers to help deliver these programs, plus develop additional ones, help manage events, process data entry, research, transcribe oral histories, and work on the museum’s successful outreach program to sixth graders, “Barnstorming.” [...]
Weightlifters hoist heavy metal in all-military meet
Story and photos by Randy Dela Cruz Sports Editor The sound of clanging raw steel mixed with heavy doses of grunts and groans filled the confines of Hickam Fitness Center, as members of all military branches pushed and pulled their way through a series of lifts at the New Year’s Weightlifting Competition, Joint Base Pearl [...]
NIOC gets in the zone to defeat PACOM/JIOC
Story and photo by Randy Dela Cruz Sports Editor Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) shut down Pacific Command/Joint Intelligence Operation Center (PACOM/JIOC) with a suffocating twothree zone to earn a double-digit 39-29 victory in the marquee nightcap of a Blue Division intramural basketball quadrupleheader at Bloch Arena, Joint Base Pearl HarborHickam on Jan. 30. Switching [...]
Fall in love with MWR Valentine’s themed events at JBPHH
Don Robbins Assistant Editor Whether it’s bowling, swimming, running, dancing or dinner, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) features something for all lovers of Valentine’s Day. For starters, from now through Feb. 12 at the Hickam Bowling Center and Naval Station Bowling Center, bowl for your chance to win a romantic dinner [...]
Parkour: The art of movement taught
Story and photo by MC2 (SW) Mark Logico Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs KAPIOLANI, Hawaii Ozzi Quintero first cleared his mind before he took his jump. He knew he had bills to pay, a car to register, but he could not think about it then. The jump was only about five feet from ledge to [...]
PMRF holds ribbon cutting for new radar detection lab
MC1 Jay Pugh Pacific Missile Range Facility Public Affairs PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Barking Sands, Kauai-A ribbon-cutting ceremony for an advanced radar detection laboratory (ARDEL) facility was held Jan. 25 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Kauai, Hawaii. The two-story ARDEL facility consists of a radar tower, mechanical and electrical rooms, radar chiller room, [...]
VITA tax center opens as resource to help military
Story and photo by Jazzmin Williams Contributing Writer The Navy Tax Center held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Jan. 30. The center is a tax resource for all Sailors, Airmen, Soldiers and Marines, as well as retirees and dependents. “My goal is that we get every Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine in here to do [...]
Mighty Mo celebrates duo of anniversaries
Story and photo by MC3 Dustin W. Sisco Navy Public Affairs Support Element West Det Hawaii The USS Missouri Memorial held the 68th anniversary of its launching and the 13th anniversary of the ship’s opening as a memorial on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) during ceremonies on Jan. 28. The event, which offered free admission [...]