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Posted on: Friday, February 9, 2007

Army site to honor Nainoa Hoe

Advertiser Staff

The Army today will dedicate the Battle Command Training Center at Schofield Barracks in honor of Army 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe, a 1995 Kamehameha Schools graduate who was killed in 2005 in Iraq.

The $33 million, 90,000-square-foot training center opened in November 2005 and serves as a Pacific-area training center with communications, mission planning and simulators.

The 11:30 a.m. ceremony, which will include remarks from Hoe's father, Allen, is not open to the public.

Nainoa Hoe, 27, was assigned in 2004 to the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, a Stryker unit from Fort Lewis, Wash.

He was killed by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, on Jan. 22, 2005, while leading his platoon.