There are a ton of military bases on Oahu. Strike that, there are two tons – or maybe more like 250,000 tons. close to 50,000 active military personnel plus their wives and children makes at least 125,000 people who don’t live in Hawaii except as a duty assignment. Add to that the 15-25,000 reserve personnel and the 100,000 people who in some way rely on the bases for their employment and what you have is nearly 1/4 of the population here in Hawaii either in or beholden to the military. Hawaii is one of a very few states that have at least one base for every branch of the armed forces – and, actually, we have more than one of almost all of them. Counting the bases, like counting the personnel themselves is impossible because the definition of bases seems to change – for example Joint Base Pearl Harbor or whatever it is now. It’s not just the Navy and Marines who have a base in Hawaii – it’s every branch. Plus the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and state and local police. In any event, here are the bases.
Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu
Bellows Air Force Base in Waimanalo
Fort Shafter Army Base in Honolulu
Schofield Barracks Army Base in Wahiawa
Tripler Medical Center Army Base in Honolulu,
Fort Derussy Army Base in Waikiki
Wheeler Army Airfield in Waihiawa
Camp Smith – Joint Base in Aiea
US Coast Guard Base Honolulu
Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Bellows Marine Corps Training Area
