Friday, November 28, 2025 l Vol. 50, Number 48
SERVING TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE AND THE MILITARY COMMUNITY OF SOLANO COUNTY
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A pararescueman assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron leaps from a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules cargo aircraft during jump proficiency training
over East Africa, Oct. 25. The training hones combat effectiveness and ensures the squadron remains ready to respond anywhere.
Civilian campaign to ID unknowns from USS Arizona reaches milestone Tribune Content Agency
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Airmen assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing participate in a simulated sexual assault prevention exercise during a sexual assault and awareness event at Travis AFB, Nov. 18.
The event offered participants an opportunity to witness a realistic, scripted scenario and think through intervention techniques that could be tested out in real time.
IPRO presents a sexual assault prevention event at Travis AFB
TUCSON, Ariz. — After nearly 84 years, the USS Arizona’s unknowns could be one step closer to being known again. A civilian-led effort called Operation 85 has reached its goal of collecting enough DNA samples from the living relatives of the battleship’s crew to prompt the Defense Department to consider reexamining dozens of unidentified servicemen who were buried in Hawaii after the Pearl Harbor attack. Most of the 1,177 sailors and marines killed on the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, were entombed inside the ship when it sank.
Arizona unknowns in Hawaii Some of the unidentified remains of USS Arizona casualties are buried commingled in mass graves at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. A civilian-led effort has reached its goal of collecting enough DNA samples from the living relatives of the battleship’s crew to prompt the Defense Department to consider reexamining dozens of the unidentified servicemen buried in Hawaii after the Pearl Harbor attack. Only 105 bodies were recovered and identified. Those who could not be identified were buried as unknowns, some in mass graves. Virginia real estate agent Kevin Kline launched USS Arizona Operation 85 in April of 2023 in honor of his great-uncle, Robert Kline, a gunner’s mate second class who died on the Arizona at the age of 22. The sole mission of the all-volunteer project: to identify as many of the unknowns as possible. “To have ‘unknown’ on a grave when we have the technology to know – that just doesn’t sit right with me,” Kline said.
Robert Edwin Kline An airman assigned to the 60th AMW participates in a simulated sexual assault prevention exercise during a sexual assault awareness event at Travis Air Force Base, Nov. 18.
Airmen assigned to the 60th AMW clap during a sexual assault awareness event at Travis Air Force Base, Nov. 18.
Gunner’s Mate Second Class Robert Edwin Kline was killed on the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. Like See ID, Page 5