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ARMY
Koreans honor Canadian vets
A.E. Brum and Robert B. Sullivan, veterans of the Korean War who also served in the Canadian armed services during World War II, were presented the Korean War Service Medal at the South Korea Consulate in Honolulu on Friday. Both men live in Hawai'i.
Brum, a retired colonel and native of Ontario, Canada, served in the Korean War from 1949 to 1950 as a Canadian soldier attached to the U.S. Army. Born in 1926, he enlisted in the Lanark & Renfrew Scottish Regiment at age 15 as a "boy soldier."
In 1943, Brum transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force as a student pilot, but transferred to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion after his brother, an RCAF Spitfire pilot, was killed in action. Brum served under command of the British 6th Airborne Division for the Battle of Rhine.
After resuming his education, Brum was attached to the U.S. Army in Korea in 1949, then with the Army in Cambodia in 1963. He was discharged in 1972.
Sullivan, a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, enlisted in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in 1942. He parachuted behind enemy lines in France in 1944 and fought in the Beston-area "Battle of the Bugle" and in Holland.
In 1945, he transferred to the U.S. Army, and served in the occupation force in France and Germany. He left the Army to return to college, but re-enlisted in 1949, helping to recover war dead in Korea in 1950 and 1951.
Schofield troops go to Thailand
The 25th Infantry Division (Light) and U.S. Army Hawai'i, is sending 500 soldiers to Thailand in support of the annual Cobra Gold joint exercise, tomorrow through May 29.
Cobra Gold is intended to foster relations between the Royal Thailand armed forces, the United States and other partners. The exercise will focus on peace enforcement operations and a noncombatant evacuation operation. The militaries will also assist the people of Thailand through combined medical and civil affairs projects.
Approximately 14,000 U.S. service members will participate, including elements of U.S. Army, Pacific; Marine Forces, Pacific; Pacific Air Forces; U.S. Pacific Fleet; Special Operations Command Pacific and Reserve members.
COAST GUARD
Cutter gets new commander
Command of the 378-foot high-endurance Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis changed hands Thursday during a ceremony at the Coast Guard base on Sand Island. Capt. Steven H. Ratti relieved Capt. Robert Stevens, who retired.
Stevens, who assumed command of the Jarvis in May 1999, covered all corners of the Pacific during his tenure, including the coasts of Siberia, Tonga, Guam and Mexico. Missions included fisheries enforcement and counternarcotics enforcement along the U.S.-Russia Maritime Boundary Line, and detecting and intercepting boats carrying alien migrants.
During a 78-day patrol in support of Operation Pacific Cordon in the Philippine Sea, Jarvis intercepted two vessels transporting illegal Asian migrants. Despite an uncooperative crew and a fire on one of the migrant vessels during a four-day transit, 151 migrants were safely transferred to the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Tinian Island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
On a 75-day deployment to enforce the U.S.-Russia Maritime Boundary Line, Jarvis, working with Russian fisheries inspectors and a Russian military boarding team, interdicted three foreign fishing vessels operating in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone.
Stevens, the 16th captain of the Jarvis, served in the Coast Guard for 35 years.
Ratti, a 1976 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, reports to Hawai'i after serving in Miami on the staff of the U.S. Interdiction Coordinator, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
