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MARCH 2021
Celebrating
women
Naval and Air Force
in
History
BREAKING
THE CODE
Pg. 10
Agnes Meyer Driscoll: First Lady of Naval Cryptology
PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Your Navy Team in Hawaii CONTENTS
Commander, Navy Region Hawaii oversees two
installations: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on
Oahu and Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking
Sands, on Kauai. As Naval Surface Group Middle
Pacific, we provide oversight for the ten surface
ships homeported at JBPHH. Navy aircraft
04 AROUND THE NAVY
CNO message on extremism
squadrons are also co-located at Marine Corps
Base Hawaii, Kaneohe, Oahu, and training is
sometimes also conducted on other islands, but
most Navy assets are located at JBPHH and
PMRF. These two installations serve fleet, fighter
05 AROUND THE AIR FORCE
Leaders direct disparity review
USS
and family under the direction of Commander, Navy
Installations Command.
A guided-missile cruiser and destroyers of
Commander, Naval Surface Force Pacific deploy
06 DIVERSITY AND AWARENESS
March is Women’s History Month
Commander
independently or as part of a group for Commander, Navy Region Hawaii and
U.S. Third Fleet and in the Seventh Fleet and Fifth
Fleet areas of responsibility. The Navy, including 10 COVER STORY Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific
John
The guided-missile destroyer First Lady of Naval Cryptology
your Navy team in Hawaii, builds partnerships and REAR ADM. ROBB CHADWICK
USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53)
and Military Sealift Command strengthens interoperability in the Pacific. Each
fleet replenishment oiler USNS year, Navy ships, submarines and aircraft from
Patuxent (T-AO 201) sail in
formation with the amphibious
transport dock ship USS San
Hawaii participate in various training exercises with
allies and friends in the Pacific and Indian Oceans to
strengthen interoperability. Navy service members
12 PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS
We got the vaccine
Diego (LPD 22) during a Strait of and civilians conduct humanitarian assistance and
Paul
Hormuz transit Feb. 19. USS San
Diego is part of the Makin Island
Amphibious Ready Group which
disaster response missions in the South Pacific
and in Asia. Working with the U.S. Coast Guard,
the Navy in Hawaii provides drug interdiction and
14 IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Coming full circle: A Hickam tale
deployed with the 15th Marine fisheries enforcement operations for Commander,
Expeditionary Unit to the U.S. 5th U.S. Pacific Fleet. In even-numbered years Hawaii
Fleet area of operations in support
of naval operations to ensure
hosts the biennial summer Rim of the Pacific
Exercise, the world’s largest military maritime 16 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
Protecting Oahu’s palm trees
Jones
maritime stability and security in exercise, featuring more than two dozen nations
the Central Region, connecting and 25,000 personnel.
the Mediterranean and Pacific
through the western Indian Ocean The Navy family in Hawaii comprises around
and three strategic choke points. 50,000 people, most of whom are active duty
service members and their families, and includes
(U.S. Navy photo by nearly 15,000 civilians and contractors as part of
our workforce. Commander
MC2 Brandon Woods)
transit the ocean JBPHH includes the Pearl Harbor waterfront,
Hickam flight line, Wahiawa annex and several
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Pearl Harbor-Hickam
CAPT. ERIK SPITZER
other areas in West Oahu and provides a major
logistics and other support hub for the military
and military families. Supporting the nation’s
ballistic missile defense initiative, the Pacific
Missile Range Facility on the western coast of“The
Director of Public Affairs, Navy Region Hawaii
Garden Island,” is the world’s largest instrumented
Lydia Robertson
multidimensional testing and training missile range.
Deputy Director of Public Affairs,
We provide services to the U.S. Pacific Command,
Navy Region Hawaii
Mike Andrews one of DOD’s six geographic combatant
commands, with an area of responsibility covering
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Director of Public Affairs,
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publication primarily for members of the uniformed submarines, Pearl Harbor is home to the largest
Managing Editor military services and their families in Hawaii. Its submarine presence in the Pacific. The Pearl connect with us
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David “Duna” Hodge
Elaine Phillips
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AROUND THE NAVY AROUND THE AIR FORCE
CNO
Message
to the
Fleet
Acting Secretary of the Air
Air Force leaders direct
Force John P. Roth, Air Force
Chief of Staff Gen. Charles
Q. Brown Jr., and Chief of
Space Operations Gen. John
disparity review
W. Raymond directed the
Department of the Air Force
Regarding Extremism
Inspector General to conduct
an additional independent
review of racial, gender
By Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations and ethnic disparity in the
Department of the Air Force.
S
hipmates, I am certain the vast As a Navy uniform and civilian, active If we must first question the intentions By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
majority of men and women in and reserve - we cannot tolerate of our shipmate standing the watch with
the United States Navy serve extremist behavior of any kind, and us, now, and especially, when taking The review follows the department’s 2020 Racial “Ensuring fair and equitable discipline and development
with honor, character, and integrity. But must engage in open and honest fire, we will fail when the nation needs Disparity Review released in December 2020 and for all our Airmen and Guardians is critical. We are
we cannot be under any illusions that conversations with each other and us must in combat. expands its focus into three additional racial categories committed to promoting an environment free from
extremist behaviors do not exist in our take action. Leaders at all levels must (Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native personal, social and institutional barriers that might
Navy. lead by example. You must set the Some Sailors may think their voices do
Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), gender, and one prevent our members from rising to their highest
tone. You must model correct behavior not matter right now, or feel frustrated
Just in the past few weeks, there 24/7/365 in person and online. seeking to be seen and be heard. But additional ethnic category (Hispanic/Latinx). potential. Diversity makes us a stronger and more
have been two separate incidents let me be clear, each of your voices capable force.”
where symbols of hate and violence We also have a responsibility to matter. This standdown is another in “The IG team has already begun to gather information
were anonymously left in living areas educate, and inspire those in the Navy, our efforts to listen, to learn, and to contained in a wide array of previous reports, studies Findings of the follow-up review will be released in
aboard ships in our fleet. The chain of those coming into the fleet, and those improve. and various databases across the Department of the conjunction with the results of a six-month assessment
command took both of those incidents leaving our service that extremist Air Force,” Roth said. “Although the data is helpful, the of actions taken in response to the initial racial disparity
seriously and immediately launched behavior is unacceptable. Hate and Now is the time for us to come most important information will come directly from our review.
investigations, which are ongoing. extremist ideology are wedges that together and be guided by a strong Airmen and Guardians.”
divide us. moral compass. We must eliminate
In the coming days, enlisted, civilian and officer
But there is more we must do, together, extremist behavior and its corrosive
because these symbols are contrary These actions stoke resentment and effects on our fighting force. And we “We learned a lot from the Department of the Air Airmen and Guardians across the services will receive
to our Navy culture, core values, and tear others down. That’s the opposite must remember that we swear an oath Force’s initial disparity review and we know we’ll learn an anonymous email survey from the DAF IG and
warfighting effectiveness. of how we will treat each other as to support and defend the Constitution much more from this second review as well,” Roth said. facilitated by the Air Force Survey Office.
shipmates. We build each other up, above all else.
As directed by the Secretary of we encourage each other, and we In directing the IG review, the senior leaders “It is critical that we hear from you because you are a
Defense and across the fleet, each celebrate our shipmates’ success. Today, and every day, our Navy emphasized the need for further analysis, stating that central part of the solution,” Roth said.
command will conduct a stand down must be a shining example of an
by April 6, to address extremism within If we don’t eliminate extremist organization centered on respect,
our ranks. We must better understand
the scope of the problem, get after this
behaviors from our Navy, then racism,
injustice, indignity, and disrespect will
inclusive of all. “Ensuring fair and equitable discipline and development for
all our Airmen and Guardians is critical. Diversity makes us a
issue, and eliminate conduct that is grow and continue to keep us from Simply put, we must demand of each
driven by extremist beliefs. No doubt, reaching our potential - an inclusive, other that we treat everyone with
this is a leadership issue. We will own respectful, professional fighting force dignity and respect. That is how we will
this. that answers the nations call. become a stronger Navy.
stronger and more capable force.”
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COVER STORY: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Meyer enlisted in the Naval Reserves as a Yeoman First of her best students became the important cryptana-
Class in 1918, a year after the Navy began accepting lysts needed during and after the war, and those officers
women into clerical positions. She reported to the Navy included Rochefort.
Yard in Washington, DC as a Yeoman, and eventually After the war, she worked for the Armed Forces Security
transferred to the Code & Signal Section for research Agency (later known as the National Security Agency)
work in code and ciphers. She remained on active duty beginning in 1949. She would not hold the influence she
until 1919, leaving the reserves in 1920, as a Chief Petty had in her early days with the Navy, however.
Officer – the highest rank for women at that time.
Sometimes referred to as
After her discharge, the Navy Madame X, and described
immediately hired Meyer as a as “forbidding” or aristocratic,
clerk in the Office of the Direc- she never allowed anyone to
tor of Naval Communications. patronize her. Complicating her
She studied cryptanalysis in life was the fact Driscoll had
New York City and Chicago never fully recovered from a
BREAKING
and showed remarkable talent serious auto accident in 1937.
for the cryptology field. After When she returned to work,
two years in private industry at those around her noticed
Hebern Electric Code Compa- a change in personality, becom-
ny and her marriage to Michael ing secretive, bitter, and even
On board the cruiser PRINZ EUGEN, soon after V-E Day. She carried from eight to
Bernard Driscoll, Agnes would ten of these German coding machines. One of them was sent to the U.S. Navy Chief a little paranoid.
again work for the Navy as a of Naval Operations by the Naval technical mission in Europe. (Photo by Naval
She retired in 1959 when she
THE CODE
History and Heritage Command)
cryptanalyst beginning in 1924.
was 70 years old. Driscoll died
As a woman in a field overshad- without fanfare or public recog-
owed by men, she took charge nition in 1971, and was buried
of decoding the Japanese fleet next to her husband in Arlington
codebook known as the “Red National Cemetery. In 2000,
Book,” increasing the Navy’s the NSA inducted Driscoll into
knowledge of the Imperial its Hall of Honor. A final tribute
Agnes Meyer Driscoll: First Lady of Naval Cryptology Japanese Navy’s logistics, ma-
neuvers, and advances in naval
to the principal pioneer of Navy
cryptology.
aviation. In 1931, the follow-on
As we remember her efforts
work she did in decoding their
in our nation’s defense during
“Blue Book” revealed details on
Story by David “Duna” Hodge Women’s History Month, we
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Public Affairs Japanese battleships, resulting
must keep in mind the norms
in the redesign of the U.S.
Arrest of German spy by federal authorities revealed a startling plot to blow up of society during Driscoll’s ear-
In 1917, the Navy hurried to establish its Code and Signal breaker. Looking back, many consider her to have been Navy’s North Carolina-class ammunition ships leaving port off New York. Suitcases removed from the rooms ly life. As Kevin Wade Johnson
Section in the Office of Naval Communications toward the “First Lady of Naval Cryptology.” battleships. Later, just before occupied by Robert Fay and his brother in law Walter L. Scholz, the alleged spy
the dawn of World War II, and conspirator, which were filled with explosives, U.S. survey maps, and an atlas. points out in his book, The
the end of World War I. In 1942, Cmdr. Joe Rochefort’s Born in Geneseo, Illinois on July 24, 1889, Agnes May (Photo by Naval History and Heritage Command) Neglected Giant, she was not
Meyer was the third of eight children born to German Driscoll realized Japan’s new
efforts at Pearl Harbor’s Station Hypo cracked able to vote until 1920, at the age
immigrant Dr. Gustave Frederick Meyer and Lucy Andrews “JN-25” code was machine-generated and developed
the code that enabled the Navy’s success against of 31. When growing up, the few women that did work generally
Shaw Meyer. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the means to decode it. Again, in 1935, she led
the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. kept to clerical, teaching, nursing or domestic careers.
1911, majoring in mathematics and physics, with strong the attack on their M-1, known as the “Orange Machine.”
But who carried the torch of Naval Cryptology Even with her abilities, she undoubtedly faced sexism, and
minors in foreign languages and music. After graduating As innovative as her work with the Navy was, it was not was promoted in grade only three times in her career.
between those years? Who taught Rochefort and
she moved over 1,000 miles away to Amarillo, Texas, and limited to breaking codes or developing cipher machines. One of the originals, Johnson writes “…she towers above
(Layout by Elaine Phillips)
many others how to break code? In the years leading up to World War II, perhaps using the
was Director of Music at a military academy. She later nearly all her contemporaries.” Despite any imperfections,
Described as a first-class cryptanalyst, Agnes May Meyer taught math and chaired the math department at Amarillo skills from her first occupation as a teacher, she taught a Agnes May Meyer Driscoll was indeed the “First Lady
Driscoll’s work gained her the reputation as a master code High School. succession of junior officers the art of cryptology. Many of Naval Cryptology.”
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WE GOT THE VACCINE
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(Layout by MC2
(Layout Charles
by MC2 Charles
Oki) Oki)
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Have you ever felt you were in the route to officership through seminary. Airmen in the dorms may struggle
right place at the right time? with connectedness, especially now
“I love God and I love the Air Force, so with physical distancing enforced due
Some would call this fate, or as it was a great fit,” said Merrifield. to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chaplain Lt. Col. David Merrifield,
647th Air Base Group Wing chaplain/ Now back to the present, the Merrifield’s advice is Airmen need to
Deputy Installation chaplain, would Merrifield family arrived at JBPHH get out there, just as he needs to visit
call it--a “Divine Appointment.” in June 2020. the Airmen.
In 1990, Airman 1st Class Merrifield “Thanksgiving was my first major To continue his mission, Merrifield
arrived at the gates of what was then holiday here,” said the chaplain. “I and the 647th ABG Chapel Corps and
Hickam Air Force Base. knew I had to spend it at the dorms the Inter-Faith Council are moving
and give back.” to re-open the Gathering Place. The
“I was in service dress with bags Gathering Place was formerly a place
in hand, looking for lodging,” said “I was near the dorms and I saw an
for Bible study, food, and fellowship,
Merrifield, who was assigned to the airman with a big turkey fryer,” he
but it was closed at the beginning of
548th Reconnaissance Technical continued. “He asked me if I wanted
the pandemic.
Group. “A lieutenant saw me and to join him as he was cooking his first
offered me a ride in his truck.” turkey.” “Chaplain Merrifield says, ‘changing
lives is tying what we do to eternal
Merrifield eventually made his way The chaplain entered a non-
traditional Thanksgiving celebration, things,’” said Chaplain Maj. Henry
to the dorms and began to settle in Hahm, 647th ABG deputy wing
but had little interaction with other but a Thanksgiving celebration
nonetheless. chaplain. “By re-opening the
Airmen. Gathering Place, which by the way
“I went to the dining facility and saw “I was seated at a picnic table with is also what the island of Oahu is
a basketball court behind it,” said lawn chairs, everyone brought named, we’re realigning the Chapel
the Rutland, Vermont, native. “This something like a bag of chips, and with Air Force Instructions 1-1 and
6-foot-4-inch tall guy said, ‘let’s play,’ there was this airman beaming with 36-2618, the Enlisted Force Structure,
so we played and I’m losing 11-0, 11-1, his first turkey,” he said. “I knew I to grow the spiritual fitness of our
11-0.” had come full circle—this was the military ohana.”
reason I became a chaplain.”
“Suddenly he looks at his watch and “Particularly during the past
says we have to go to the chapel for The dorms Merrifield originally holidays, when Airmen would
study,” Merrifield continued. “I grew occupied are no longer standing, but typically go home to visit family
up knowing the truth, but the dots the chapel is still located across the couldn’t because of COVID-19
finally connected.” street from where the dorms once restrictions,” added Chaplain
were. Maj. Matthew Hoshor, 647th ABG
Like many new Airmen, Merrifield Individual Mobilization Augmentee
was missing connectivity. “I preach in the chapel now that I to the deputy wing chaplain. “The
used as an airman for bible study,” he Chaplain Corps rallied to help
“The chapel changed the vector of my said. “When I preach I have a direct prepare a sacred space.”
life,” Merrifield said. “I didn’t have to view of where the dorms used to be.”
be anyone other than myself, I didn’t Opposite Photo: In 1990, Airman 1st Class
have to change my values.” Throughout his career, Merrifield David Merrifield was assigned to then Hickam
Air Force Base. In June 2020, now Chaplain
made supporting dorm Airmen his Lt. Col. David Merrifield, 647th Air Base
Coming Full Circle:
Following Hickam, Merrifield and his mission. Group Wing chaplain/Deputy Installation
new wife received orders to Japan. chaplain, returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor
“Airmen are smarter and there are Hickam, Hawaii, with a mission to assist
Airmen to connect and increase their sense of
“I was married, but I knew I had to new ways to reach people,” he said. belonging. (Courtesy photo)
volunteer with the singles ministry to “But what everyone still wants is
give back,” he said about his second connectedness.” Background: A Hawaiian lei rests in the
A Hickam Tale duty station. “I met another chaplain
who changed my life.” “I know what it’s like, I was there
entryway of the Gathering Place at Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 11,
2021. The Gathering Place serves as a joint
(Layout by MC2 Charles Oki)
being prior-enlisted, so I talk the operation, giving Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors,
While Merrifield was separating from language and I’ve been in their and Guardians an opportunity to connect
in a singular effort to ease the stressors of
the Air Force, the chaplain in Japan shoes,” he continued. “No one ever integrating servicemembers into a new and
Story by Lt. Amber Kelly-Herard, 15th Wing Public Affairs informed him about the Air Force notices the chapel unless the chaplain much bigger military family. (Photo by Tech.
Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr.)
Chaplaincy Program that offers a goes out or someone invites you.”
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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
PROTECTING OAHU’S Imagine the countless ways to find value in a palm tree: from
cultural importance to aesthetics and even food production,
palms provide so much to Hawaii’s islands. But can you imagine
PALM TREES FROM Hawaii without palm trees? At the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
(CRB) Response, we’re working to protect the future of Hawaii’s
Coconut Rhinoceros
Beetle life stages,
COCONUT
observed in the University
palms by combating the spread of CRB, an invasive beetle.
of Hawaii at Mānoa
Coconut rhinoceros beetles are large, two-inch black insects research lab.
that feed on palms including coconut, date, royal, and fan
palms. They were first detected on Oahu in December 2013.
RHINOCEROS
The first several months of the CRB’s life cycle are spent in
a breeding site of green waste, mulch, or other decomposing
plant material. After hatching from eggs, CRB grow larger
as grubs before pupating and emerging from the breeding
BEETLES
site as adult beetles. Adult CRB live for about three to five
months,and feed on the heart of palm trees, causing damage
to fronds and potential tree death.
The good news is that with continued detection, treatment, and
support from communities, there is hope in stopping the spread
of this harmful pest. To date, CRB have only been detected
Story by Koki Atcheson, CRB Outreach in certain areas of Oahu, and have not been detected on any
Photos by Kaili Kosaka other Hawaiian Islands.
The CRB Response monitors beetle populations island-wide
and identifies and treats breeding sites. A recent project of the
CRB Response is to inject coconut palms in our highest-catch,
heavily landscaped areas with imidacloprid. Imidacloprid is
a common pesticide that is an active ingredient in home and
garden products such as topical flea treatments for dogs. The The Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response checks
pesticide travels to the crown of the palm, and CRB who feed and maintains over 3,100 traps around Oahu.
on the tree that has been injected die. Initial data from tree in-
jections have shown a promising reduction of CRB trap catches
in one of our highest catch areas at Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Where Coconut rhinoceros beetle life stages, observed in the University of Hawaii at
trap detections once averaged Mānoa research lab. Credit: Kaili Kosaka, CRB Response
V-shaped cuts on coconut palm fronds
over 20 beetles per week,
are signs of CRB damage. This positive trend is welcomed by the CRB Response,
data from recent weeks
have shown an average which will continue monitoring the palms that were
of six beetles caught. treated for signs of recovery from CRB damage. Although
CRB can cause palms to die after several feeding events,
previously damaged palms can recover. In 2020, the CRB
Response documented 758 palms that had recovered out
of 1,852 palms that had observable CRB damage. With
dedicated effort and community support, this trend of
palm recovery can continue.
Join the CRB Response in protecting Oahu’s palms by For more information on coconut
CRB bore into the crown of palms to feed on the
(Layout by Elaine Phillips)
notifying them of any potential CRB damage, beetles, rhinoceros beetles and the CRB
unemerged fronds (palm heart). Boreholes, as
or larvae. Stopping the spread of invasive species is Response efforts, visit
shown on the base of these fronds, are evidence
everyone’s responsibility, and together we can protect www.CRBHawaii.org.
of CRB damage.
Oahu’s natural resources.
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