{"id":10352,"date":"2012-05-08T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2012-05-08T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:41:53","slug":"military-rethinking-location-of-guam-marine-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10352","title":{"rendered":"Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10338\">U.S. changing its distribution of troops moving from Okinawa<\/a>, Hawai&#8217;i is expected to get up to 2700 Marines, while Guam will get less than originally projected.\u00a0\u00a0 USA Today Reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coshoctontribune.com\/usatoday\/article\/39195581?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|s\">&#8220;Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base&#8221;<\/a> (May 2, 2012):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The federal government is rethinking where to put a Marine base on Guam now that fewer Marines will be moving to the U.S. territory from Okinawa, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>With fewer troops and families to house, a local Marine base could be smaller than previously thought, Joe Ludovici, the executive director of the military&#8217;s Joint Guam Program Office, said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New environmental impact reviews will have to be done:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New draft and final environmental impact statements will be released in 2014. A decision on where to put the base and firing range would come the following year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the ancient Chamorro village site in Pagat may yet dodge the bullet(s):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The changes could also lead to a new proposed location for a firing range.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new plan, 5,000 Marines and 1,300 dependents will move to Guam. The old plan included 8,600 Marines and as many as 12,000 dependents.<\/p>\n<p>The military had been planning to build the Marine base on about 680 acres of civilian land in Dededo, in northern Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The firing range was to go on the site of an ancient village, Pagat, also in northern Guam. The Navy began reevaluating this idea last year after a lawsuit alleged it had failed to adequately consider other locations that would affect the environment and historical sites less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the U.S. changing its distribution of troops moving from Okinawa, Hawai&#8217;i is expected to get up to 2700 Marines, while Guam will get less than originally projected.\u00a0\u00a0 USA Today Reported that &#8220;Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base&#8221; (May 2, 2012): The federal government is rethinking where to put a Marine base on Guam &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Military rethinking location of Guam Marine base&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,56],"tags":[2409,2195],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects-issues-and-campaigns","category-pacific","tag-movements-resistance","tag-pacific-pivot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10354,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}