HWST 107 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions with Complete Solutions
(Latest 2025)
What is the difference between militarism and militarization?
- Correct Answers ✅Militarism: the ideology that a nation
should maintain and be ready to use its strong military
capabilities to advance its national interest. Using the military
to threaten and take
Militarization: is the use of the military as defense
What is the relationship between militarism and imperialism
and how do they impact Oceania together? - Correct
Answers ✅Imperialism is followed by militarism. Many
territories were acquired through military force
Why is Hawai'i considered the most militarized state in the
union? - Correct Answers ✅The state of Hawaii has the
largest percentage of its population in the military
Why is the military criticized for its foot prints in the island? -
Correct Answers ✅- destruction of sacred aina
- destruction of cultural sites
- displacement of kanaka maioli from ancestral lands
Where does a bulk of military controlled lands in Hawaii come
from? - Correct Answers ✅Hawaiian government and
crown lands
,HWST 107 Final Exam Study Guide
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(Latest 2025)
How much aina today is under military stewardship? -
Correct Answers ✅5.7% or 236, 303 acres of total land
How does military recruiting effort disproportionately affect
Native Pacific Islanders? - Correct Answers ✅- targets low
income communities who lack education and career
opportunities
- US pacific island territories produce disproportionately high
number of military personnel
- alignment of education system with military recruitment
efforts
What is PACOM and where is it based? - Correct Answers
✅US pacific command. Based in Oahu
List 2 statistics regarding PACOM in Hawaii - Correct
Answers ✅- oldest and largest unified military command
- encompasses 43 countries, 20 territories and possession,
and 10 US territories
Identify DERP and FUDS - Correct Answers ✅DERP:
Defense environmental restoration program
FUDS:Formely used defense sites
, HWST 107 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions with Complete Solutions
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Why do critics claim that DERP reports fall short of their
intended purpose? - Correct Answers ✅- many "cleaned"
sites and still contaminated
- DERP doesn't apply to military installations on foreign soil
How many Hawaii military installations with hazardous sites
have been identified by the DERP? - Correct Answers ✅115
military installations
According to DERP, what island has the most contaminated
sites? - Correct Answers ✅Oahu
Why is the Halawa fuel storage facility of particular concern
to the local community and environment? - Correct
Answers ✅liquid fuel tanks contaminate the aquifer below
the site
What evidence suggest that the Halawa fuel storage facility
poses risk to Honolulu's drinking water supply? - Correct
Answers ✅A test on 10/31/15 showed that there were
already contaminants in groundwater underneath the facility
What are the results of water test conducted by the Board of
water supply and the navy? - Correct Answers ✅BWS:
water below the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Tank is
contaminated with jet fuel
Questions with Complete Solutions
(Latest 2025)
What is the difference between militarism and militarization?
- Correct Answers ✅Militarism: the ideology that a nation
should maintain and be ready to use its strong military
capabilities to advance its national interest. Using the military
to threaten and take
Militarization: is the use of the military as defense
What is the relationship between militarism and imperialism
and how do they impact Oceania together? - Correct
Answers ✅Imperialism is followed by militarism. Many
territories were acquired through military force
Why is Hawai'i considered the most militarized state in the
union? - Correct Answers ✅The state of Hawaii has the
largest percentage of its population in the military
Why is the military criticized for its foot prints in the island? -
Correct Answers ✅- destruction of sacred aina
- destruction of cultural sites
- displacement of kanaka maioli from ancestral lands
Where does a bulk of military controlled lands in Hawaii come
from? - Correct Answers ✅Hawaiian government and
crown lands
,HWST 107 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions with Complete Solutions
(Latest 2025)
How much aina today is under military stewardship? -
Correct Answers ✅5.7% or 236, 303 acres of total land
How does military recruiting effort disproportionately affect
Native Pacific Islanders? - Correct Answers ✅- targets low
income communities who lack education and career
opportunities
- US pacific island territories produce disproportionately high
number of military personnel
- alignment of education system with military recruitment
efforts
What is PACOM and where is it based? - Correct Answers
✅US pacific command. Based in Oahu
List 2 statistics regarding PACOM in Hawaii - Correct
Answers ✅- oldest and largest unified military command
- encompasses 43 countries, 20 territories and possession,
and 10 US territories
Identify DERP and FUDS - Correct Answers ✅DERP:
Defense environmental restoration program
FUDS:Formely used defense sites
, HWST 107 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions with Complete Solutions
(Latest 2025)
Why do critics claim that DERP reports fall short of their
intended purpose? - Correct Answers ✅- many "cleaned"
sites and still contaminated
- DERP doesn't apply to military installations on foreign soil
How many Hawaii military installations with hazardous sites
have been identified by the DERP? - Correct Answers ✅115
military installations
According to DERP, what island has the most contaminated
sites? - Correct Answers ✅Oahu
Why is the Halawa fuel storage facility of particular concern
to the local community and environment? - Correct
Answers ✅liquid fuel tanks contaminate the aquifer below
the site
What evidence suggest that the Halawa fuel storage facility
poses risk to Honolulu's drinking water supply? - Correct
Answers ✅A test on 10/31/15 showed that there were
already contaminants in groundwater underneath the facility
What are the results of water test conducted by the Board of
water supply and the navy? - Correct Answers ✅BWS:
water below the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Tank is
contaminated with jet fuel
