2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 21 Jul 2007 20:38:04 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Hawaii Stryker brigade Draft Environmental Impact Statement
 
If Strykers leave, Hawaii gets new unit
	
By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser (HI)
July 21, 2007

If the Army is forced to move the Stryker brigade out of Hawai'i in late 2008 or early 2009 because of an environmental lawsuit, another brigade - either airborne or infantry - would replace it here, a newly-released study states.

The 595-page draft environmental impact statement put together by the Army considers returning the Stryker unit to Hawai'i after an upcoming deployment to Iraq, or permanently basing it at Fort Richardson in Alaska or Fort Carson in Colorado.

If Colorado or Alaska is chosen, Hawai'i would get a slightly smaller unit, the Army said. The Stryker brigade has about 4,000 soldiers, 328 of the eight-wheeled armored vehicles and about 600 other vehicles.

The Army is weighing its options after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in October that the Army had not fully complied with federal environmental law and did not adequately analyze alternative locations outside Hawai'i for the Stryker brigade.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707210351

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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