Another WWII outpost reemerges in the Pacific to support classified U.S. missions

The U.S. Navy will resume operations on Wake Island — a largely dormant contingency airfield — after over 70 years of reduced staffing, as the service works to re-establish a competitive presence in the Pacific while a growing Chinese military deploys its Navy farther from home. The resumption is part of a broader effort in the Pentagon to rehabilitate World War II-era airfields like those in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. […] The post Another WWII outpost reemerges in the Pacific to support classified U.S. missions appeared first on The Air Current.