Letter in Honolulu Star Advertiser to Cancel RIMPAC by Col. Ann Wright
Don’t hold RIMPAC during the coronavirus pandemic
As a retired U.S. Army colonel with 29 years of service, I find it extraordinary that with 4,000-plus sailors being offloaded in Guam for exposure to COVID-19 on the USS Roosevelt, and U.S. military at domestic bases are told not to travel, the Department of Defense would not immediately cancel the mammoth RIMPAC military excercises scheduled off Hawaii in less than two months. RIMPAC brings more than 25,000 personnel and more than 200 ships, submarines and aircraft from 20-plus countries.
Save resources — human, fiscal, medical — for the true threat to U.S. national security: a virus, not bombs and bullets.
Cancel RIMPAC.
Ann Wright
Ala Wai
