Army report: Keep Stryker brigade in Hawaii

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Army report: Keep Stryker brigade in Hawaii
By Audrey McAvoy - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Feb 16, 2008 14:53:58 EST

HONOLULU — An Army environmental study set to be released next week favors keeping a Hawaii-based Stryker brigade in the islands, the military said Friday.

The Army plans to release the study, which says the central Oahu Army base of Schofield Barracks is the “preferred alternative” to bases in Alaska and Colorado, next Friday. Army leadership will consult the report before making a final decision on where to put the brigade.

The Army initially hadn’t planned on carrying out the environmental study as it didn’t think it was necessary. But it did so after a federal appeals court sided with Native Hawaiian and environmentalist groups who sued demanding a study be conducted.

The groups alleged the brigade would hurt Hawaii’s fragile environment and desecrate cultural sites. They also said the Army failed to adequately consider alternative basing options.

Hawaii’s Democratic senators both welcomed the report’s findings.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_armystryker_080216/