{"id":115471,"date":"2021-07-13T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115471"},"modified":"2021-07-13T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:14:45","slug":"house-appropriators-fund-hawaii-missile-defense-radar-but-guam-youre-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115471","title":{"rendered":"House appropriators fund Hawaii missile defense radar, but Guam, you’re F***ed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Island-tipping Marines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As if it wasn’t bad enough that the Navy Department sends enough sailors and Marines there to risk capsizing the island (hat tip to Rep. Hank Johnson [D-GA] for alerting us to the potential for disaster), our far-east island territory is not gonna be getting more missile defense. Hawaii will though.<\/p>\n

Guam, situated in the South Pacific is about 3,400km south-southeast of North Korea. The Norks’ latest missile tech can go 13,000km (first tested successfully in 2017), but they now have multiple operational missile systems capable of reaching Guam. Hawaii on the other hand is 7,400km away from North Korea.<\/p>\n

Naturally, if you’re a Congressman, putting missile defense in Hawaii is the bigger priority. Both are militarily strategic posts, but one has a population of 167k and the other 1.4m. As a territory, Guam doesn’t even get to cast any votes for US President while Hawaii has four.<\/p>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends;<\/p>\n

House and Senate lawmakers have been pushing to boost the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s fiscal 2022 budget, and they continue to advocate for increased missile defense in the Indo-Pacific theater. But House appropriators plan to cut funding to enhance missile defense in Guam.<\/p>\n

In the House Appropriations Committee\u2019s FY22 spending bill, the MDA\u2019s $78.3 million request for missile defense for Guam \u2014 U.S. Indo-Pacific Command\u2019s top unfunded priority \u2014 took a $15.9 million hit due to \u201cunjustified growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency requested an additional $40 million to procure long-lead items for the architecture in Guam as well. But according to a wish list sent to Congress from the command, more funding \u2014 to the tune of $231.7 million \u2014 on top of what the MDA requested is needed to move at the desired pace. The list also included funding for a Homeland Defense Radar for Hawaii.<\/p>\n

House appropriators did provide $75 million in funding for a HDR-H, which the agency chose not to fund in its budget request. In hearings over the past several months, lawmakers across the defense committees advocated for providing Hawaii the added protection.<\/p>\n

House appropriators did not provide a more detailed explanation regarding the cut to Guam\u2019s missile defense.<\/p>\n

Yet, the MDA has not finalized or unveiled its plan on how it will enhance missile defense capability on Guam. MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill said the plan is to use mature capabilities, which are believed to include the Aegis Combat System and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The Army deployed a rotational THAAD presence to Guam in 2013.<\/p>\n

Hill acknowledged in a House Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing last month that he had promised a report to Congress by June, \u201cbut given the complexity of it, that\u2019s going to take us a little bit longer to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Developing the desired protection for Guam is on \u201ca very aggressive timeline, given where we are at,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source; Defense News.<\/a><\/p>\n

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