In an exclusive interview at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Col. Luke Spathes and Lt. Col. Reinier Villanueva discuss rapid mobility, integration with F-22s, and the challenges of operating in the vast Indo-Pacific.

It’s July 30, 2025, and the remote Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia has just been rattled by a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust earthquake, the strongest quake in the region since 1952 and among the most powerful ever recorded globally. The quake triggered tsunami warnings across vast expanses of the Pacific: from Japan (where nearly two million people were evacuated), to Hawaii, the U.S. West Coast, Chile, Ecuador’s Galápagos, and French Polynesia. Contents In an exclusive interview at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Col. Luke Spathes and Lt. Col. Reinier Villanueva disc

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