{"id":8985,"date":"2011-06-18T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2011-06-18T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:36:34","slug":"army-commander-may-renege-on-decision-to-end-live-fire-training-in-makua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"Army commander may renege on decision to end live fire training in Makua"},"content":{"rendered":"

As our friends in Vieques, Puerto Rico have reminded us, history has proven that we cannot believe what the military says.\u00a0 The new commander of the U.S. Army Pacific may renege on the decision by his predecessor to end live fire training<\/a> in Makua valley.\u00a0 The AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The top U.S. Army commander in the Pacific wants to be sure Hawaii-based soldiers have alternate locations for live-fire training before he\u2019ll write off using Makua \u2014 a valley many Native Hawaiians consider sacred \u2014 for that purpose.<\/p>\n

In his first interview since taking command of U.S. Army Pacific, Lt. Gen. Francis J. Wiercinski told The Associated Press that he won\u2019t send soldiers to Makua Valley to train with live ammunition so long as the Army finishes building training ranges in central Oahu and the Big Island on time.<\/p>\n

But Wiercinski said he would need to keep his options open on Makua in case the construction of new ranges at Schofield Barracks and Pohakuloa Training Area is delayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are successful in completing the live-fire areas on Schofield, if we are successful in completing all of the live-fire areas on PTA that we need,\u201d Wiercinski said, he\u2019ll not be forced to open up live-fire training on Makua. \u201cBut if we don\u2019t get that, then I\u2019m forced to look at other ways to get live-fire throughput for all of our units here in Hawaii.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Makua is being held hostage until the Army can complete its destructive expansion in Lihu’e (Schofield) and Pohakuloa.\u00a0\u00a0 This is how the divide-and-conquer approach has been used against communities in Hawai’i, and between Hawai’i and other places in the region.<\/p>\n

Construction in Lihu’e and Pohakuloa has been delayed by the cultural sites and iwi kupuna (human remains) as well as the discovery of Depleted Uraniuim (DU) in both places.<\/p>\n

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As our friends in Vieques, Puerto Rico have reminded us, history has proven that we cannot believe what the military says.\u00a0 The new commander of the U.S. Army Pacific may renege on the decision by his predecessor to end live fire training in Makua valley.\u00a0 The AP reports: The top U.S. Army commander in the … <\/p>\n

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