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U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele said the annual fiscal 2022 defense bill passed by the House Armed Services Committee today includes multiple provisions for the National Guard — including the establishment of a Space National Guard as a reserve component of the U.S. Space Force — as well as a feasibility study for the establishment of a Hawaii Air Guard aeromedical squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

Also part of the legislation is a requirement for a Navy update on reestablishing daily access for Defense Department personnel to Lualualei Naval Road/Kolekole Pass, and Army requirement to report on options to establish a water utility cooperative at Dillingham Airfield and determination of whether excess land there could be returned to the state…

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