{"id":7826,"date":"2010-09-19T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2010-09-19T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:20:58","slug":"military-trained-at-kulani-for-more-than-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7826","title":{"rendered":"Military trained at Kulani for more than 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20100919_Academy_plans_cut_military_activity.html\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a> published an article about the Board of Land and Natural Resources decision to transfer land to the State of Hawai&#8217;i Department of Defense for an Army National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Academy. The article is mostly a puff piece for the Youth ChallenNGe Academy. However, what the article reported about the military training is interesting:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The National Guard had proposed using a former boys  school at Kulani for urban warfare training, building a pistol range,  conducting company-size and lower-level training along roadways and in a  pasture area, and developing helicopter landing zones in the pasture  and near the camp, according to state documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">However, some residents opposed what was termed the &#8220;militarization&#8221; of the land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hilo resident Cory Harden was among those who opposed the military training at Kulani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;They are going to expand that natural area, the  reserve, and military use is not compatible with trying to preserve  these endangered animals,&#8221; Harden said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Guard&#8217;s Anthony said Hawaii Guard soldiers  already had been using the Kulani grounds for more than a decade for  urban training, but that will cease.<\/p>\n<p>The land at Kulani was set aside by an executive order for the exclusive purpose of operating a prison. The admission that military training had gone on for more than ten years is evidence of violations of the executive order.<\/p>\n<p>Three parties requested contested case hearings to challenge the BNLR&#8217;s decision, including DMZ-Hawai&#8217;i \/ Aloha &#8216;Aina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Star Advertiser published an article about the Board of Land and Natural Resources decision to transfer land to the State of Hawai&#8217;i Department of Defense for an Army National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Academy. The article is mostly a puff piece for the Youth ChallenNGe Academy. However, what the article reported about the military &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Military trained at Kulani for more than 10 years&#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":[159,7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-hawaii","tag-youth-and-militarization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826"}],"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=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}