Strykers are basically large, relatively fast-moving, armored, 19-ton vehicles that look like tanks. Each Stryker vehicle has a cannon - a great big gun - that can fire Depleted Uranium, explosives, and titanium. A total of 4,000 soldiers (and their families) are hoping to be positioned permanently inside Hawaii to perform military training that reportedly prepares them for urban warfare inside cities in Iraq. And for obvious reasons, it is apparently easier to get soldiers and their families to commit to staying for long deployments in Hawaiian paradise than it is to get them to move to Colorado or Alaska!
Full story: EASY Ways to Stop the Military Radioactive Contamination of Hawaii by Cathy Garger