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Training and Testing EIS/OEIS


The Importance of Training and Testing
Navy Mission. The U.S. Navy's mission, derived from Title 10 of Realistic Training
the U.S. Code, is to "maintain, train and equip combat-ready naval forces
capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of Realistic training allows U.S. Navy
the seas." To accomplish this mission, the Navy establishes and executes personnel maintain the highest level of
at-sea training and testing programs and ensures forces and commands readiness and capability. Diverse training
have access to military ranges, operating areas and airspace for training and opportunities ensure Navy personnel
testing. Training provides Navy personnel with the opportunity to learn
are able to react swiftly and decisively
and practice skills needed to conduct a wide range of activities. The Navy
also conducts research, development, test and evaluation of new technology, in a wide range of potential situations
tactics, weapons systems, vessels and aircraft to ensure that its forces are from combat to civilian evacuations and
properly equipped. Further, the Navy’s access to military ranges must be disaster relief.
maintained because those ranges are vital for training and testing.

Hawaii-Southern California
Training and Testing Study
Area (HSTT). The study area for
the Hawaii-Southern California Training
and Testing Environmental Impact
Statement/Overseas Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) includes
the:
✦✦ Hawaii Range Complex as extended
to the International Dateline;
✦✦ Southern California Range Complex
including the San Diego Bay;
✦✦ Silver Strand Training Complex;
✦✦ Areas on the high seas where training
and sonar testing may occur during
vessel transit between the two range
complexes; and
✦✦ Some Navy pierside locations.

Navy Training in the HSTT. The Navy has trained in waters off the coasts of Southern California and Hawaii for
decades to prepare Navy personnel and other military forces for global conflicts and homeland defense/homeland security activities.
The Navy ensures that military personnel are prepared to go into harm’s way through rigorous, real-life training in the air and at sea.

Navy Testing in the HSTT. The Navy conducts a variety of testing activities in the HSTT. These activities are broad in
scope and range from the scientific study of the marine environment to the testing and evaluation of new technologies and weapons.
Sometimes these activities are carried out as part of Navy training activities because of the need to use ships, submarines or aircraft,
or because some aspect of the training activity is an important part of the test. These testing activities are essential to ensuring
military personnel have the best materials, equipment and tactics possible.
Importance of the HSTT. Proximity to the Western essential to Navy training
The HSTT is essential for meeting Pacific in anti-submarine warfare,
the Navy’s mission. The study area has Hawaii serves as an ideal en route which is conducted in the
unique attributes, including location, training location for units deploying littoral areas. The training
proximity, environment and size, that from the West Coast to the western environment is also
make it an ideal training and testing Pacific Ocean or Middle East. Range important for air, surface,
capabilities in Hawaii provide an subsurface and amphibious

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opportunity for deploying units to training activities.
Location Near Homeports of train in multiple warfare areas.
Naval Forces The Hawaii ranges provide an
San Diego, Calif., and Pearl Harbor, In-transit Training Space opportunity to train in an unfamiliar
Hawaii, are naval homeports, each The transit areas linking these two environment, and to make the real-
having a high concentration of key critical range complexes provide ample time adjustments required by Sailors
Navy organizations, commands, opportunity for ships and aircraft to and Marines. The large training area
vessels and infrastructure. This means conduct valuable en route training available within the Hawaii Range
more time spent training rather than and testing activities. Complex allows training to take place
traveling to training areas. In addition, on a geographic scale that replicates
training close to home reduces fuel Training Environment possible real-world events. There
costs and usage. The ability to train in underwater are also large remote areas within
topography that is similar to the the complex that provide an ideal
Proximity to Other Ranges in littoral (nearshore or shallow water) setting for long distance tests and
the Southwest areas of the world is crucial to multinational exercises such as the
Southern California contains the most Navy deployment preparations. The Rim of the Pacific training exercise.
capable and heavily used concentration underwater areas of the Southern
of Navy ranges in the eastern Pacific. California Range Complex are

To fulfill its mission, the U.S. Navy


Training Activities. establishes and executes at-sea training
Training activities within the
programs and ensures forces have access
HSTT supply Navy personnel
to military ranges, operating areas and
with opportunities to learn and
airspace for training and testing. The
practice skills needed to operate
Hawaii-Southern California Training and
complex weapons systems.
Testing study area is essential for meeting
Training activities consist of
the Navy’s mission and training Sailors for
basic and specialized individual
emergencies and national security threats.
military skills, intermediate Testing Activities.
skills or small unit training, and Testing activities within the
advanced, integrated training HSTT are also important Training AND TESTING with
events. Training activities provide for maintaining Fleet Explosives
realistic experience and include: readiness. New and emerging Training with explosives under real-life conditions
✦✦ Operating aircraft, ships and technologies are constantly is necessary for the readiness of Sailors who
submarines; being researched and may be called to respond to emergencies and
✦✦ Conducting weapons developed by the Department national security threats. Operating in a high-stress
training; environment – including the use of and exposure
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of Defense and eventually
✦✦ Conducting mine counter- these technologies must be to live ordnance and explosives – provides an
measures; and tested and evaluated. Because opportunity for Sailors to practice the critical tasks
✦✦ Detecting and locating sonar systems are critical to and coordination essential to survival and success.
submarines. the Navy’s ability to defend These skills are highly perishable, and practice is
against adversary submarines necessary to ensure accuracy and instill confidence
All the skills involved in in military personnel.
conducting these activities safely and anti-ship mines, it is
vital to conduct scientific Training and testing with explosives significantly
and effectively are challenging to
research, evaluate new systems enhances the safety of U.S. forces by improving
achieve and difficult to maintain
and maintain the operational combat readiness, equipment reliability and personal
without constant practice. The
capability of current systems. safety. To the extent possible, the Navy uses
Navy maintains a rigorous,
The study area has provided an simulation and other available technologies when
comprehensive training regimen
ideal environment for testing training and testing. Simulation, however, cannot
to ensure personnel are ready to
the quality and safety of these completely replace training and testing in a real
use these skills when called upon.
weapons systems for decades. world environment.

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