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.
Posted: Thu - August 19, 2004 at 09:46 AM