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Tons of work clear way for Stryker

Oct- 3-2005 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

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By William Cole, Honolulu Advertiser

Artillery rounds, grenades and mortars — and lots of them — are coming out of the ground from a firing range at Schofield Barracks.

Nine teams with contractor Zapata Engineers have been working on an 820-acre site since July 2004 to remove decades worth of unexploded ordnance.

Already, they've pulled out 517.5 tons of bombs and scrap metal, including two-foot 155mm artillery rounds, 60mm mortars and munitions dating to World War II.

The work is one of the increasing signs of a $1.5 billion Stryker Brigade's anticipated presence on O'ahu, and one of the fundamental changes coming to the Army in Hawai'i in years to come. [...]


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