We have winners at SOS Aloha!
Trooping the Colours with the Regency Rockstars!
- Meljprincess wins her choice of autographed book from Kieran Kramer or Vicky Dreiling!
Beginnings of Classic Thrillers
- Catherine Lee wins a book choice from my convention stash.
Special Sourcebooks Giveaway - THE LAST ROMANOV by Dora Levy Mossanen
- Debby is the winner!
- Debby is the winner!
Linda Schroeder's ARTISTS AND THIEVES
- Maureen is the winner!
Aloha to Cats!
- Donna S. wins a book choice from my conventions stash.
- Donna S. wins a book choice from my conventions stash.
Laurel McKee's ONE NAUGHTY NIGHT
- Jeanne M. is the winner!
Barbara Delinsky and Ebook Reissues
- Na is the winner of her choice from Barbara's ebook reissues:
Bonnie Rae and NETHER BOUND
- Tina is the winner!
Winners - please claim your prizes by sending your mailing address to sos.aloha@yahoo.com.
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| BATTLESHIP takes place during RIMPAC. |
Pearl Harbor is a winner by hosting RIMPAC 2012. From its website at this link,
Held every two years by Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), RIMPAC 2012 is a multinational maritime exercise that takes place in and around the Hawaiian Islands.
This year's RIMPAC exercise, the 23rd in the series that began in 1971, is scheduled from June 27 to August 7, with an opening reception scheduled for June 29 and closing reception August 3. Twenty-two nations, 42 surface ships, 6 submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate. Units from Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore, and the United States will participate. Military personnel from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate. The countries of Bangladesh, Brunei, Brazil, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka have been invited as observers.
RIMPAC is a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans.
If you could volunteer as an escort officer, which country would you like to meet? One randomly selected commenter wins a book choice from my convention stash. This giveaway is open to all readers. Comments are open through Saturday, June 30, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll publish the winner on Sunday, July 1.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
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| BATTLESHIP shot footage during RIMPAC 2010. |
Wow, I had never heard of RIMPAC before. What an amazing thing! And those pictures of them moving together through the ocean, moving.
ReplyDeleteI would love o meet New Zeland! Though just to see any of it would be wonderful. Have you ever seen this event take place?
I would like to meet Norway.
ReplyDeleteSingapore or New Zealand for me. Thanks so much and congrats to the winners.
ReplyDeleteJapan or Russia. Thank you, Kim. I am delighted!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all winners!
WOW! I never knew this. I would love to meet New Zealand. Congrats to the winners!
ReplyDeleteMel
Congrats to all the winners!
ReplyDeleteI would like to meet with Australia or New Zealand.
Congrats to all the winners and I hope everyone has a great week.
ReplyDeleteFor a naval training exercise in Pearl Harbor, I'd be dying to meet the representatives from Japan. That is just too tempting a premise.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners!
Australia..that would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners.
Congratulations to the winners!! I think I'd like to meet France.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to meet Australia or New Zealand, both countries are awesome and I think it would be interesting to meet their military.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners!
Hi Kim,
ReplyDeleteRIMPAC is a vital part of the security necessary now on the seas to protect the shipping lanes that are so important to the different nations of the world, not just ours, now more than ever before and it was wonderful to read your post on them.
If I were a volunteer as an escort officer I would love to meet with the Australia representatives. Australia has always fascinated me.
It's hard to comprehend how for almost 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australian and that even tough it was discovered by Dutch explorers in 1606, it was the late 18th century before Britain claimed the eastern half of the country. and European settlement and eventually five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
I admire the fortitude of the people of Austraiia who over the centuries have made it the country it is today.
I think I would either want to meet Australia (love the accent) or the UK (Love a Scottish accent too, and maybe they would be in kilts, lol)
ReplyDeleteI would love to meet Australia.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners!
ReplyDeleteI loved Battleship... when they weren't talking... Except for Gregory Gadson, everyone else was kinda wooden... but the special effects were awesome and I did enjoy the Rimpac setting.
I think that I'd love to meet reps from Australian and Japan :)
Wtg winners
ReplyDeleteLove t to Thailand
Kimh
Australia
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners. I think Tonga would be rather fun!
ReplyDeleteThis is the first that I have heard about RIMPAC. This is really awesome to have so many countries come together in peace. I would love to meet those from Australia or Canada.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners.
misskallie2000 at yahoo dot com
Congrats to all of the winners!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful thing for them all to do! There are so many that I would like to meet. At the top, Australia, New Zealand and Netherlands. :)
Congrats winners!
ReplyDeleteIf I was escort officer, I would love to meet any country really :)
Thank you and congratulations to all the winners! Maybe I would pick Australia since I have always wanted to go there.
ReplyDeleteBig congrats to all winners!
ReplyDeleteI would love to meet Japan, New Zealand or Australia