In 1964, Hawaii granted the U.S. Army access to approximately 23,000 acres of land on Hawaii island in exchange for a token $1 payment. The state land serves as a key link between federally owned parcels in the 132,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), which continues to be used extensively for live-fire training, and was subject to a “maneuver agreement” with the Territory of Hawaii struck in 1956 — so the lands have been under military control longer than Hawaii has been a state. Read this story
