The Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center (KRSOC, also pronounced "Kay-ARSock"), also known as the Kunia Tunnel or the Regional Signals Intelligence Operations Center Kunia, was a

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facility that was located on Kunia Road between Kunia Camp and

Wheeler Army Airfield Wheeler Army Airfield , also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii. It is a National Hi ...

in central

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. In 2012, the facility was replaced by the

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History

In response to the attack on

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in 1941, the installation was designed and built as a bomb-proof, underground open bay with a floorspace to facilitate aircraft assembly in proximity to Wheeler Army Airfield. During the later part of World War II and in the decades that followed it was used primarily for

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and intelligence activities. Military units that occupied the structure include the U.S. Navy's Naval Security Group Activity Hawaii (a combination of the former

NSGA Kunia Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC), Hawaii (previously: Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA) Hawaii, NSGA Kunia, and NSGA Pearl Harbor) is a United States naval installation located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. NIOC Hawaii employs more ...

and NSGA Pearl Harbor) and the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps

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