Given the military\u2019s push for Marines slated to be stationed in Guam to conduct highly destructive live-fire training on Tinian and P\u00e5gan, it smells fishy when a high-ranking military official responsible for implementing that basing decision offers the military\u2019s help on the CNMI\u2019s workforce issues (http:\/\/www.mvariety.com\/cnmi\/cnmi-news\/local\/99739-dod-to-help-nmi-address-workforce-issues). One has to wonder why the military would insert itself in this issue.<\/p>\n
To the extent that the military\u2019s offer simply reflects an understanding that keeping our islands\u2019 economy stable and strong promotes national security, we appreciate the assistance.<\/p>\n
If, however, the military is trying to leverage its cooperation on the CW issue into concessions from CNMI officials who have opposed the military\u2019s proposed buildup, we urge our leaders to stand firm and reject any attempts to hold our economy hostage. Sacrificing our homelands on Tinian and P\u00e5gan to destruction under the military\u2019s bombs, artillery, and mortars is not worth 30 pieces of silver.<\/p>\n
Tinian Women Association Given the military\u2019s push for Marines slated to be stationed in Guam to conduct highly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,200,19034,320],"class_list":["post-264411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cnmi","tag-military","tag-tinian-women-association","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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