HONOLULU -- Amid plans for a sweeping realignment of United States military services in Asia and the Pacific, the U.S. Army in the Pacific has begun extensive changes intended to turn it into the most flexible expeditionary force that it has been since the end of the war in Vietnam 30 years ago.
From Hawaii, where the headquarters of the Army in the Pacific is situated, to the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. mainland, to Alaska, to South Korea, and to Japan, the Army is being transformed, in the current buzzword of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Says Lt. Gen. John M. Brown, commanding general of the Army in the Pacific: "Almost every one of our brigades and divisions, and all of our major headquarters, will be undergoing transformation over the next two years to better enable us to fight the war on terrorism or engage in any other military operation."