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(Tribune News Service) — All 25 nations that were invited to participate with the United States in Rim of the Pacific in 2018 have been formally asked to return to Hawaii in mid-August for a version of the exercise that’s truncated and mainly at sea, the Navy said.
The Navy’s Third Fleet in San Diego, which plans RIMPAC, added details including the invitee list after announcing April 29 that the big maritime interoperability exercise held every two years was still on, but has been pushed back from late June and trimmed from over a month to two weeks.
The exercise is scheduled Aug. 17 to 31, and is only being held in Hawaii and not also in Southern California as was the case two years ago.
