After being forced to evaluate 29 Army posts as possible sites for the fifth Stryker Brigade Combat Team, the Army has narrowed the field to Schofield Barracks, Fort Carson in Colorado and Fort Richardson in Alaska.

But an attorney for Earthjustice still believes the Army's latest review is flawed. The environmental law firm won a federal appeals court ruling after arguing that the Army's initial environmental impact statement did not seriously consider alternatives besides Hawaii.

The public now has until Sept. 4 to comment on the latest environmental study.

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.