[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION/REUSE: "Marines eye land for 'future force' at former Barbers Point [HI] base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marines eye land for 'future force' at former Barbers Point base

By William Cole
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
September 13, 2021, 

A space-crunched Marine Corps is looking for additional locations to house and train its "future force " in Hawaii, and one consideration may be hundreds of acres of undeveloped land on the east side of the former Naval Air Station Barbers Point.

The Corps has shown interest in the land for years, including the 18-hole Barbers Point Golf Course owned by the Navy, but also now as it reorganizes its forces to deter or fight against China.

One possible effect is that the Marines could end up getting back part of one of their old bases : Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, which was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and had a key role in preparation for the Battle of Midway. The Marine base was deactivated in 1952 and became part of the larger Barbers Point facility.

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For the entire article, see
https://news.yahoo.com/marines-eye-land-future-force-161200397.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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