Compromise is sought on troops
The incoming top U.S. Army commander in the Pacific said he hoped to work with activists to overcome objections to a Stryker brigade in Hawaii and soldiers training in Makua Valley.
But Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon said the Army was not going to leave the islands or stop using Hawaii for training.
Environmentalists and Native Hawaiian groups have objected to basing a Stryker brigade in the islands, saying the unit’s 4,000 soldiers and 320 armored Stryker vehicles would hurt the islands’ environment.
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