
U.S. Marines with the combined anti-armor team, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, fire a vehicle mounted M2 .50 caliber machine gun during exercise Bougainville II at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, July 18, 2020. Bougainville II is the second phase of pre-deployment training conducted by the battalion designed to increase combat readiness through complex and realistic live-fire training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jacob Wilson)
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PŌHAKULOA, Hawaiʻi - The U.S. Army says it intends to prepare an environmental impact statement to analyze its proposal to retain up to approximately 23,000 acres of state-owned land.
(BIVN) – A plan to retain up to approximately 23,000 acres of state-owned land at Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA) in support continued military training will be analyzed in an environmental impact statement, the U.S. Army announced.
One year ago, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court affirmed an April 2018 circuit court ruling that the State of Hawaiʻi breached its trust duties in regards to its Pōhakuloa Training Area lease. Clarence “Ku” Ching and Mary Maxine Kahaulelio took the Hawaiʻi Department / Board of Land and Natural Resources to court in 2014, after the state was unable to provide any records that DLNR was “ensuring compliance with this term of the 1964 lease” to the United States military.
From the Public Affairs Officer of the US Army Garrison Hawaiʻi at Pōhakuloa Training Area on Friday, September 4: