Chink in Stryker plans


Today's Star-Bulletin has an editorial regarding the lawsuit filed by three Native Hawaiian groups to stop the Army from locating a Stryker brigade in Hawaii, based on the failure of the EIS to consider other locations, saying, "Controversy over the Stryker brigade should have led the Army to comply meticulously with requirements of preparing its environmental assessment for the program and leave no avenues for challenges. It appears that it left a chink in its plans for the armored vehicle. ... Unfulfilled obligations to restore damaged lands in the state and the continuing conflict over live-fire training at Makua Valley have predictably increased public opposition to further military expansion here." It also mentions the GAO report that says the weight of the Stryker substantially reduces the range of the vehicles for rapid deployment, one of the arguments for locating the brigades in Hawaii in the first place.


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