Hawaiian Sovereignty: get the military out of Hawaii, start with the Big Island

by Keoni
(Moku O Keawe)

My take on Hawaiian Sovereignty, we need it now! The U.S. is like a abusive spouse in a forced marriage. We need a divorce!

What the F*** not only is the Big Island of Hawaii becoming the U.S. Military Playground, they are planning on invading residential airspace now.
B-2 bombers practice by dropping two thousand pound duds on the Big Island.

C-17's and others have a proposed corridor to fly over us, stryker brigade, bombing our mountains, rumors of turning pohakaloa into a fort with 50,000 troops? Leave our Aina now!

Below are some articles about the military, their activities on the Big Island, and their new proposal for flights over the Big Island. Again Hawaiian Sovereignty is needed now! Before these yahoos do any more.

According to published reports in March by West Hawaii Today, the $200 million C-17 cargo jets were going to fly over Honokaa to a point about five miles southeast of Waikoloa, then on the Hilo side of Hualalai and south where they would pass five miles mauka of Captain Cook and continue south, flying over Ocean View before returning to the Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu.

While the route avoided most populated areas, a proposed 10-mile-wide corridor could take flights over Captain Cook and the entire South Kona coastline from Honaunau to Milolii. Other populated areas within the proposed flight corridor were Honokaa, Ahualoa, Waikii and Ocean View.

Earlier this month, Col. John Torres, commander of the 15th Airlift Wing, stated the C-17s, 20 percent smaller than a Boeing 747, would be flying no lower than 300 feet over unpopulated areas and no lower than 2,000 feet over populated areas, as well as avoid Captain Cook, Ocean View and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

The military training route is supposed to reduce the area where C-17s now operate from 14,400 square miles to less than 500 square miles. The corridor would range from four to seven miles wide and be about 70 miles long.


By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer
Thu Nov 22, 7:09 AM ET

HONOLULU - More than 18,000 feet above the mountains on Hawaii's biggest island, two B-2 stealth bombers drop six 2,000-pound inert bombs on a training range below.

It's a scene being repeated monthly as the Air Force's sleek, boomerang-shaped planes use Hawaii for target practice. The aim is to make sure pilots are trained and ready to act if needed. The bombers have been assigned to Guam to deter North Korea and to fill gaps in the regional U.S. military presence created by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

"There are very few potential adversaries in the world that don't understand and respect what this bomber capability can bring," said Col. Timothy Saffold, deputy commander of the 613th Air and Space Operations Center in Hawaii.

The B-2 bomber, which costs about $1.2 billion, is designed so that it doesn't show up on radar, giving it a unique ability to penetrate an enemy's defenses and go after heavily defended targets. It became available for military operations in 1997.

The planes have been flying test runs over Hawaii and Alaska since the Pentagon began rotating bombers through Guam in 2004. But they only started dropping inert bombs on the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area last month.

In the past, pilots only simulated dropping weapons over the islands. Now, they can see whether the bombs they release land where they are supposed to.

The planes are equipped to drop "smart" bombs, or weapons guided to their targets by GPS technology. But they don't use it in the Hawaii drills.

Instead, the airmen rely on gravity — and extensive data on wind speed and elevation — to deliver their unarmed bombs to the right spot.

Maj. Brian Bogue, deputy chief of strategy plans at the 613th Air and Space Operations Center, said such methods are extremely accurate and that there is little chance any bombs would stray off the Pohakuloa range.

Planners intentionally pick targets in the center of the range, Bogue said, adding that two miles is the closest any of the bombs has come to the range boundary.

Furthermore, because none of the bombs contains explosives, there's no danger of one going off.

During a training mission to Hawaii this month, the bombers flew about 18 hours roundtrip. Ohio Air National Guard tankers refueled the planes in midair twice along the way.

During the last refueling session before the bombers headed back to Guam, a B-2 traveling about 400 mph gently eased up to a KC-135 tanker 26,500 feet above the Pacific Ocean.

When the bomber was just 20 feet away, the tanker attached its boom to the B-2 and sent 35,000 gallons of gas into the bomber's tank.

On the way back from Pohakuloa, the bombers launched a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor to practice targeting naval assets. Part of their mission was to use their stealth capabilities to sneak past their make-believe adversary's radar and take out its defenses.

"This particular mission covers the full spectrum of what we can do," said Maj. Tim Hale, one of the pilots in the exercise.

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