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RIMPAC: Tankers central as military looks beyond Red Hill

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                As the Navy inches toward defueling Red Hill, it is looking increasingly to tankers to support operations in the Pacific. The Maersk Perry, a South Korean-built and American-flagged tanker chartered by Military Sealift Command, at Pearl Harbor during RIMPAC.

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

As the Navy inches toward defueling Red Hill, it is looking increasingly to tankers to support operations in the Pacific. The Maersk Perry, a South Korean-built and American-flagged tanker chartered by Military Sealift Command, at Pearl Harbor during RIMPAC.