United States Army Pacific
army component unit of the United States Indo-Pacific Command
The United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) is an Army Service Component Command which serves as the Army component for United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). It may also serve as a Joint Task Force headquarters. The command has forces in Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, and South Korea. It also performs missions in Southeast Asia, in the countries stretching from the Philippines all the way to Bangladesh and India.
United States Forces Korea (USFK) has had operational command and control of U.S. forces in Korea since January 2012, and USARPAC headquarters oversees the manning, training, and equipping of Army forces assigned to USFK.
Subordinate units of this command have performed humanitarian missions in places as widely separated as Haiti, Cuba, and the Middle East.
History
The first U.S. Army formation established in Hawaii was the District of Hawaii, on 25 October 1910. It was succeeded on 1 October 1911, by the Department of Hawaii, and on 15 February 1913, by the Hawaiian Department. Brigadier General Montgomery M. Macomb was the first commander of the Hawaiian Department. Headquartered in the Alexander Young Hotel, it moved to Fort Shafter in 1921. The department also started wearing the red octagon insignia bearing the yellow letter "H." The colors symbolized Hawaiian royalty and the eight sides represented the main islands of Hawaii.
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