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Lance Okamura has dedicated his life to completing assignments in the service of others. His latest task? Rebuild trust with the public in the wake of the Red Hill disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Communication breakdowns happen everywhere in life, even in the usually orderly world of the military.<\/p>\n

Brig. Gen. Lance Okamura knows this first-hand. On the morning of Oct. 1, 2022, he awoke at Guantanamo Bay to a barrage of personal emails congratulating him on his upcoming trip home to Hawai\u2018i, where he was to be installed as director of strategic engagement of Joint Task Force-Red Hill. Problem was, no one from the military had even bothered to give him the news \u2014 this despite U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin\u2019s announcement 24 hours earlier at a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally when you get your assignment, there\u2019s an actual person who calls and prepares you,\u201d explains Okamura. \u201cBut there was no preparation whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Okamura, at left, then-commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, presents Lt. Justin Feeney with a plaque signifying his promotion to the rank of captain. At right is Maj. Michael Monaghan, the commanding o~ cer of Marine Security Forces \u2014 the unit responsible for protecting Naval Station Guantanamo Bay from external threats. PHOTO COURTESY LANCE OKAMURA<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Even the human resources agency for the U.S. Army\u2019s general officer corps was unaware of the new assignment. Okamura immediately forwarded a copy of the press release to the department and requested confirmation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked, \u2018Is this really going to happen?\u2019 They said, \u2018Hmm \u2026 well, yeah. If the secretary of defense said it, then we\u2019ll have to make it happen,\u2019\u201d recalls Okamura, chuckling at the memory of the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo literally in a matter of weeks, I was packing up my stuff and coming here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now several months into his latest assignment, a mission that requires navigating through what he calls \u201cthe complexities of Red Hill\u201d \u2014 specifically, the safe removal of 104 million gallons of fuel while staying on course to hit the facility\u2019s targeted defueling completion date of June 2024 \u2014 Okamura remains pleased to be back in familiar terrain, a son of the \u2018\u0101ina who stands at the ready to \u201cserve my community \u2026 serve the people of Hawai\u2018i.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Okamura discusses strategic engagement opportunities with Rana Lynn Kennedy, chief of legislative a\ufb00airs, at Joint Task Force-Red Hill headquarters on Ford Island. ANTHONY CONSILLIO PHOTO<\/strong>
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Interestingly enough, his chief responsibility with JTF-Red Hill is to ensure open lines of communication as he attempts to rebuild trust with the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m required to engage with members of the community, from the local and state level all the way up to the federal and congressional level, to ensure that they understand that we are doing the right thing for the right reason, that we\u2019re being open, communicative and transparent, that we\u2019re consistent in our messaging, and most importantly, that we\u2019re fully committed to protecting the environment and the people of Hawai\u2018i,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

True to form, the decorated Okamura welcomes his latest challenge of helping to clean up the environmental disaster at Red Hill \u2014 a crisis that began in 2021 when fuel leaked from an underground fuel storage facility into a freshwater aquifer and contaminated sources that provided drinking water to area residents. He points out that of the 253 repairs and modifications identified as problematic at the facility, nearly 70% of them (174) have been completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say we\u2019re ahead of schedule,\u201d says the man who\u2019s received such honors as the Defense Superior Service medal, the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal over the course of his distinguished military career, \u201cbut we\u2019re definitely on schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also hopes to clean up misperceptions surrounding Red Hill in his engagements with the community, including the belief among some that the facility will be reused for fuel in the future.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not happening, reassures Okamura.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe repair work that we\u2019re doing is so we can safely get rid of the fuel,\u201d he explains, adding there are other established facilities throughout the Pacific that eliminate the need to ever store fuel at Red Hill again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want another fuel leak or fuel spillage, but we have to do these repairs to make sure the integrity of the facility and the pipes are at 100% so that we can successfully defuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Okamura has complete trust in the team at JTF-Red Hill \u2014 \u201cWe have brilliant engineers who have already figured out how we are going to safely transfer the fuel,\u201d he says, beaming with pride \u2014 he also understands the difficulty of regaining the trust of locals when considering a historical record that demonstrates \u201cyears of unfulfilled obligations by the military in mutual environmental stewardship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I have memories of Kaho\u2018olawe, where the island was used for targeting practice and was bombarded repeatedly, which ruined the environment. To this day, Kaho\u2018olawe is still uninhabitable,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Hawai\u2018i, people have long memories. They don\u2019t want Red Hill to be another Kaho\u2018olawe, where this just extends for years \u2026 where we don\u2019t care for the environment, don\u2019t take care of the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s important for Okamura to remain in constant dialogue with the public, reassuring all who will listen that headway is being made regarding the facility\u2019s eventual closure and the end result will be pono, the Hawaiian word for \u201crighteous, moral and correct,\u201d for the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the process is slow and it may not be happening as fast as many would desire, we\u2019re still making progress to ensure that Red Hill will in fact be closed, shut down and, more importantly, that the environment will be clean and safe for future generations,\u201d he promises.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Okamura is the right man for the job. He is intelligent, highly disciplined and committed to assigned tasks. He\u2019s also extremely service-oriented, productive and successful at what he does. In essence, he shines as a man in uniform and relishes his role in the military.<\/p>\n

Still, he hasn\u2019t always felt love for the armed forces. In fact, as the son of a career U.S. Air Force airman, he actually had contempt for the service early on.<\/p>\n

The genesis of his disdain began soon after Okamura\u2019s older sister contracted measles encephalitis and suffered brain damage. To assist, the U.S. Air Force promised his father, Neil, that it would no longer move his family from place to place but permanently settle them in Hawai\u2018i, where all the necessary support services would be available for his disabled daughter. Yet as part of this arrangement, the elder Okamura would be obligated to serve yearlong hardship tours elsewhere in the world, and this order would have to be fulfilled every three years.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the deal left a bitter taste in his young son\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I would often ask, \u2018Why is my dad gone?\u2019\u201d recalls Okamura. \u201cThere was this level of animosity I had toward the military because they were taking my father away. As a result of my father not being there, I saw all the hardships my mother (Viola) had to endure caring for my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those feelings were only exacerbated while enrolled at Kamehameha Schools in the \u201980s, when Okamura discovered there was mandatory participation in its Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps program. Grudgingly, he went along with it, but by the time of graduation, he wanted no part of continued military involvement.<\/p>\n

Instead, he chose to pursue business management at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Eventually, he interrupted his studies to serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia \u2014 a period in which he began to mature, find his purpose and focus on things that really mattered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when you really learn the values of sacrifice and service. You\u2019re on your own, for all intents and purposes, and there\u2019s no person telling you what to do, what to say,\u201d he explains. \u201cAt the same time, you have a goal of providing service to the people that you\u2019re living with. Those two years of serving overseas were like humanitarian service, and I was like, \u2018Wow! Now this is something I truly enjoy.\u2019 It brought meaning to my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following his return from a church mission and a subsequent heart-to-heart with his father about his future, Okamura made up his mind: Serving in the military would suit him just fine.<\/p>\n

He chose the U.S. Army \u2014 a decision based on his favorable impression of \u201ca poster of a paratrooper jumping out of an airplane \u2026 looking really tough and strong\u201d and believing \u201cthat\u2019s for me \u2026 that\u2019s what I need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet despite entering basic training and airborne school, and later returning to BYU-Provo to, in part, join its ROTC program, his intention was to keep his total time in the military brief. Okamura gave it \u201cfour to six years in the U.S. Army\u201d \u2014 tops.<\/p>\n

But as he found out, best-laid plans often go awry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI figured (the military) was just a means to an end,\u201d confesses Okamura, who received his commission in 1995. \u201cNow some 28 years later, I\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p>\n

What convinced Okamura to remain in uniform and serve his country were the terrorist attacks on 9\/11. As he explains, \u201cIt made me realize that there\u2019s something more important than just me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s continued to display selflessness and excel wherever he has been asked to serve. His past strategic-level staff assignments include appointments as National Intelligence Support Team commander and joint operations officer for the chairman\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff Director of Intelligence, chief of counter-terrorism programs for Special Operations Command Pacific, deputy director for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group and director for the Office of FBI-Military Affairs Counter-Terrorism at U.S. Pacific Command. Aside from his tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, the former military police officer has also been deployed in support of operations such as Enduring Freedom, Operation Noble Eagle and the Hurricane Floyd Disaster Relief Mission.<\/p>\n

After two decades of complete dedication to the U.S. Army, Okamura was finally prepared to retire in 2015. Even when he was offered the rank of general, he initially declined the promotion because he felt it was time to support his wife, Tracy, and her career as an FBI agent.<\/p>\n

But after talking things over with her (\u201cShe basically told me, \u2018You\u2019re an idiot. Take the general officer promotion,\u201d he recalls with a laugh), Okamura reconsidered and accepted the advancement offer. His first task: to lead Joint Task Force-Guantanamo as its commander.<\/p>\n

He describes his time at Gitmo, the well-known detention camp located in Cuba, as \u201cchallenging, but one that I enjoyed immensely.\u201d Responsible for the safety and general welfare of detainees awaiting trial or being prepared for transfer to another country, Okamura is proud of his track record of providing \u201chumane and legal care to those who were under our care and custody.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also honest about how he was pegged for this particular assignment:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons why I was selected to be the commanding general down in Joint Task Force-Guantanamo was because while I was in Washington, D.C., I was part of the design team to figure out the future of Guantanamo,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt was never my intent to go down there, but as part of the planning team, they made the decision: \u2018Hey, Lance, we got a great idea. You were part of the design team \u2014 now you get to go and implement the plan.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the challenge he faced while serving at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (and really through much of his military career) was separation from his wife and their two children. Sure, Tracy would catch flights down to Cuba \u201cmaybe a couple of times a year,\u201d and Okamura would return for short visits every now and then as well, but mostly there were far too many months of living apart.<\/p>\n

The irony is not lost on the brigadier general when recalling his adolescence, and the intense resentment he had for the military for removing his father from periods of his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuess who had to leave his wife and children behind for months and up to a year at a time?\u201d Okamura asks. \u201cI was the one who had to explain to my children why their father was not there, why their father was not attending their soccer games, why I could not sometimes be there for their birthdays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, his absences did not have the same impact on his children as his father\u2019s hardship tours had on him.<\/p>\n

Today, Okamura\u2019s daughter is preparing to graduate from University of Michigan Law School while his son is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think I was able to rub off positively with my children by virtue of the fact that my son thought it was a good idea to provide service and he decided to join the Air Force, which was a good decision,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat\u2019s really neat is that my son never resented me for being away. I think he understood what was occurring \u2026 that his dad was actually providing something bigger and greater than himself in protection of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

That idea of protecting others continues for him at JTF-Red Hill. Ultimately, Okamura realizes that in his role, he must stress the importance of valuing people above all else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are all these mantras you\u2019re inculcated with throughout your military career: readiness, be a warrior, train, discipline, be prepared to go to war,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I\u2019ll be honest, it wasn\u2019t until my senior years in the military and after having been put in various command positions as a senior officer, starting as a major lieutenant colonel and now as a general officer, that I learned the most important lesson, which is to take care of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mission he hopes to be successful at in the coming days, weeks and months as part of the united effort at JTF-Red Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you focus on people first, the mission will succeed,\u201d he states in conclusion. \u201cIf you foster an environment where you\u2019re there to empower people to succeed, give them all the training, resources and leadership lessons necessary, they will do remarkable things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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