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MARINES
More troops headed home
Members of the Marines' 4th Force Reconnaissance Company and 1st Radio Battalion based out of Kane'ohe Bay are expected to return home tonight after serving for seven months in Iraq and Kuwait.
The Marines deployed on Feb. 9, and have been returning in groups over the summer.
Kane'ohe base among safest
Marine Corps Base Hawai'i has been recognized by the secretary of the Navy as one of the safest installations in the Marine Corps. It's the second consecutive year the Base Safety Center has received the Navy's Safety Excellence Award.
Base Safety Center Director Bo Irvine traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive personal honors from the Navy secretary and Marine commandant.
NAVY
Missouri gets Tomahawk model
The Raytheon Company donated a full-size model of a Tomahawk missile to the USS Missouri Memorial Association.
Although the battleship Missouri, now a floating museum off Ford Island, is better known as the ship aboard which the Japanese surrendered to end World War II, it also served in the first Gulf War, launching Tomahawk missiles at Iraqi positions in Baghdad and Kuwait.
Pearl sub heads for West Pacific
The attack submarine USS Santa Fe deployed from Pearl Harbor last week on a routine West Pacific deployment.
Cmdr. Andrew Hale Jr., the Santa Fe's commanding officer, said morale is high for the deployment. "After Sept. 11 and everything else that has happened over the last two years, it is a different world out there and we are ready to go," he said.
COAST GUARD
Cutter, crew back in Hawai'i
The Coast Guard cutter Jarvis arrived home yesterday after completing a 70-day patrol. The 378-foot cutter and its crew of 170 left Honolulu in early July to patrol the South and West Pacific.
However, they were diverted to the North Pacific to enforce a 1992 U.N. moratorium on fishing vessels that use drift nets longer than 1 1/2 miles. The Jarvis found eight fishing vessels engaged in illegal drift-net activity, the Coast Guard said.
While on patrol, the crew also found and freed a 40-foot sperm whale that had become entangled in a drift net and buoy line.
