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Military Hazard Areas on
Hawaii Island
5 Blacked-out areas on map represent current and former U.S.
~ ti , I 2 military lands. 57 known sites used for bombing, artillery,
~ ~ live-fve ranges, etc. (Boundaries are approximate.)
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12 ~ Military Unmarred Aerial
~ Vehicles (UAVs- Shadow-200)
13 19 11'/ 1 4 train on Hawaii Island?
Currently, 7.1 mil8on live-rounds n A Stryker Brigade in
,~A of various weapons are fired annually Hawai i will bring up to 400
16 1S on sacred Hawauan lands at the ( ~ Stryker vehicles - eight-
. PohakuloaTrairting Area (PTA). wheeled, l9 ton, armored
17 \ ~ infantry carriers to
tr PTA 20 ~ . ~ PTA for training?
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More than 400 square miles (250,000 acres 32 34
or 9 I{aho'olawes in size) on Hawaii Is(aod , ~ 31
may contain live arms and older military 33
toxins and should be considered military • 30
hazard areas.
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if you discover any suspected
ordnance, assume it is live.
Do NOT touch it. !Yore its Did you know
location. Report the location
to Malu ' Airra 966-7622.
• The U.S. Army secretly tested chemical,
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~8 biological and deadly nerve gas agents in
Hawai i watershed/forest-reserve areas,
facts repeatedly denied but later confirmed."
24 25 • Live ordnance has been found off Hapuna Beach, in Hilo
• 27 Bay, on residential and school grounds, and that people have
26 been injured and killed by ezploding ordnance?
• Some Unexploded Ordnance can be set oft by cell phones?
• The Pohskuloa Training Area (P'i'A) has the highest concentration of
Ordnance Found endangered species of any U.S. Army installation in the world?
• The military wants to ezpand PTA by 23,4110 acres, increase the level of
~ / training by 7 times, and the number of live rounds tired up to 14.8 million annually?
~ ~~a' / Injuries or fatalities .The planned ezpansion of PTA is adjacent to a Girl Scout Camp :wd
~ ~ caused by ordnance will involve known health hazards?
~ ~ • Hawai i is the most heavily militarized group of islands in the world:'
Military Clean-Up NOT Build-Up!Ref To
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contact: iVialu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action Ref. Dote_MAY 1 ~ 9004 .
P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawaii 9676(). Phone (808) 966-7622. email jaCa~interpac.net
http:// www.malu-aina.org http://maluaina.pitas.com
(Submitted by Jim Albertini)
List of Current & Former Military Sites on Nawai'i Island (List still in formation)
1. Jungle Training Area, North Shore 38. Hilo Research Site
2, Waipio Bombing Targets (near Kurtistown)
3. Jungle Training Area near Waipio 39.O1a'a Mill Camp
4. Ninoole Radar Station 40. Big Island Bombing Targets
5. Upolu Point Kaloli Point
6. Navy Rocket Range, Hawi 41. Wahine Maka Nui
7. Big Island Bombing Targets 42. Kea' au
Mahukona Range 43. Waiakea Storage Area
8. Navy Bombing Range, Kawaihae 44. Big Island Bombing Targets
9. Kamuela Reservoir Leleiwi
10. Kamuela Camp #4 45. Kalanianaole Camp
11. Anti-tank, artillery, impact range 46. LST Landing Beach
12. Nansay Hawaii - Ouli 47. Pi'ihonua Ordnance Storage
13. Big Island Bombing Targets 48. Waianuenue Camp
pu~o 49. Jungle Warfare Area
14. Puako 50. Kaumana Camp
15. Lalamilo Firing Range 51. Kanoelehua Camp
16. Big Island Bombing Targets 52. Panaewa Tract 1
Mano Point 53. Camp Furneau
17. Makolea Point 54. Hilo Storage Site
18. Kona & Huehue Station 55. Hilo Prisoner ofWar Carnp
19. Waikoloa Maneuver Area 56. General Lyman Field
20, Camp Kilohana 57. Army impact Range, Waiakea
21. Mauna Loa Training Area
22. Catnp Pohakuloa--anti-tank, ordnance Found:
artillery, impact Range Hapuna Beach 1995, 1997, 1998
23. Kahuku Ranch Radar Station Hilo Breakwater 20(12
24. Pakini Bombing Range Richardson's Beach 2002
25. Missile Tracking Station Waimea Middle School 2002
26. Ka La' a Military Reservation Waikoloa Fire 1998
27. Morse Field Anekona Estates 1998
28. Pahala Hospital Waimea Country 1998
29. Ka'u Bombing Range Chock Inn 1998
30. Kilauea Crater matyeuver/impact Pheasant Ridge 1997
Waikoloa Elcm. School 1994
31. Kilauea Military Can1p 0' ili Parcel circa 1993
32. Pololu Ola'~ 1955
33. Kapoho Target Area Injuries & fatalities caused by ordnance:
34. Big Island Bombing Targets pepeekeo 1956 fatality
Cape Kumukahi parker Ranch 1954 - 2 fatalities ~ ~ ~
35. Waiakea Forest Reserve Mamalahoa Hwy. 1945 fatality
36. Firing Range near Mt. View Pu' u Pa 1983 injury
37. Combat Training near Mt. View ~ . ~
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