[CPEO-MEF] Hawai'i studies

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army focuses on Makua, Strykers, depleted uranium

By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
January 21, 2008

There are few subjects involving greater sensitivity — and for that 
matter, time, money and effort — for the Army in Hawai'i than Makua 
Military Reservation, Stryker vehicles and depleted uranium.

All three have come up in recent weeks, and all represent the challenge 
of keeping up a strategically important military presence in a 
relatively small island chain.

Hawai'i's stock and trade is natural beauty and tourism, but its second 
greatest economic driver — which is not acknowledged nearly enough — is 
the military.

The challenge is to reconcile the two.

Lt. Gen. John M. Brown III, the commander of U.S. Army Pacific, with 
headquarters at Fort Shafter, recently said at a Chamber of Commerce of 
Hawai'i meeting that both an environmental impact statement for the 
Stryker brigade and a long-stalled study of military training in Makua 
Valley have been completed.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080121/COLUMNISTS32/801210311/1315/COLUMNISTS32

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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