Friday, October 31, 2008
Merrill Lynch Uses CDFI Assessment and Ratings System on $93 Million ...
But it did so after a federal appeals court sided with Native Hawaiian and environmentalist groups who sued demanding a study be conducted. The groups alleged the brigade and its 19-ton Stryker vehicles would hurt Hawaii's fragile environment and desecrate cultural sites. They also said the Army failed to adequately consider alternative basing options. At issue was whether the 4,000 Stryker brigade soldiers now deployed to Iraq with 328 of the eight-wheeled vehicles would return late this year or early in 2009 to Schofield Barracks, Fort Richardson in Anchorage or Fort Carson in Colorado. The new top U.S. Army commander in the Pacific, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, said last month that Hawaii is a strategically vital place where soldiers could rapidly deploy to all parts of the Pacific. read more
