Marine Corps Base Hawaii

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson designated of land on Mokapu Peninsula as the U.S. Army's Kuwaaohe Military Reservation. In December 1940, Fort Kuwaahoe was renamed Fort Hase, in honor of Major General William Frederick Hase, who served as Chief of Staff for the Army's Hawaiian Department from April 1934 to January 1935. In 1927 the Army began building coastal artillery batteries. In September 1939, the Navy began constructing a seaplane base, filling in part of Kaneohe Bay to add 280 acres to the station and building runways, hangers and other buildings. Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay was officially commissioned on February 15, 1941, with a flag raising and formal commissioning ceremony Incidents On 20 November 2023, a P-8A Poseidon of the US Navy approached to land on Runway 22 in rain and reduced visibility. It was unable to stop and overshot the runway, ending in Kāneʻohe Bay. The crew of 9 was rescued by US Coast Guard boats. The plane was from Patrol Squadron 4 ("Skinny Dragons") based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state. ==Geography==

, 2022 According to the United States Census Bureau, the base has a total area of , of which is land and , or 24.74%, is water. It is dominated by two large volcanic formations, Radar Hill and Ulapau Crater. Radar Hill stands 646 ft tall and is home to Kansas Tower which is a former Radar Station hence the name Radar Hill. On the other side of the base lays Ulapau Crater. It stands 659 ft tall and looms over the base. ==Demographics==

For census purposes, the area is demarcated as the Kāneʻohe Base census-designated place (CDP), with a population at the 2020 Census of 9,483. The CDP was formerly known as Kāneʻohe Station. ==Education==

The Hawaii Department of Education operates Mokapu Elementary School on the MCBH property which goes from kindergarten to 6th grade. its enrollment was about 900. ==Renewable energy and "green" initiatives==

Since 2004, MCBH has partnered with Ocean Power Technologies to test the generation of electric power from ocean waves using a "PowerBuoy" wave energy converter, one of the first wave power projects in the U.S. The Azura wave power device is currently being tested in a 30-meter site at the base. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, under commanding officer Col. Robert Rice, installed solar water heaters on all base housing units, and on 8 December 2010, was scheduled to debut a "Net Zero" sustainable energy home, which uses solar power. The base fleet of government vehicles is also being changed over to hybrid and electric vehicles and most other "FlexFuel" vehicles now operate on E85 ethanol-based fuel. MCB Hawaii installed the first E85 pump in the state of Hawaii in November 2010, the first U.S. military installation in the world to do so. ==See also==