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Palm Circle or the Pineapple Pentagon, [2] is a historic portion of Fort Shafter in Honolulu, Hawaii. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, it housed the headquarters of the commanding general and his staff, U.S. Army forces, Pacific Ocean Areas, during World War II. By 1944 this command was responsible for the supply and ...
Palm Circle was laid out as a cantonment for an infantry battalion. The barracks and officers' quarters were arranged around a parade field ringed by royal palms. The first unit stationed at the new post was the 2d Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. Fort Shafter gradually spread out from Palm Circle.
This portion of Fort Shafter housed the headquarters of the commanding general and his staff, U.S. Army forces, Pacific Ocean Areas, during World War II. By 1944 this command was responsible for the supply and administration of all U.S. Army personnel in the Central and South Pacific , and from 1943 to 1945, carried out logistical planning for ...
H. Harbor View Plaza; Hawai'i Hochi Building; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Hawaii Capital Historic District; Hawaii Convention Center; Hawaii Loa College
Fort Shafter, Hawaii: Appointer: The President with Senate advice and consent: Term length: 2–3 years (approx.) Formation: 1910 (as Commander, Military District of Hawaii) 1990 (as Commanding General, U.S Army Pacific) First holder: Walter S. Schuyler (as Commander, Military District of Hawaii) Claude M. Kicklighter (as Commanding General, U ...
Ten years later, in September 2006, the 311th SC (T) was reorganized to become the 311th Signal Command and relocated to Fort Shafter, Hawaii to become a theater enabling command of U.S. Army Pacific.
The unit was inactivated on 21 June 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and was re-designated on 14 April 2005 as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Theater Sustainment Command. The former 45th Corps Support Group was inactivated on 11 January 2006 and reorganized as the 8th Theater Sustainment Command (Provisional).
Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) is a major United States Department of Defense medical facility administered by the United States Army in the state of Hawaii.It is the tertiary care hospital in the Pacific Rim, serving local active and retired military personnel along with residents of nine U.S. jurisdictions and forces deployed in more than 40 other countries in the region. [1]