The government wouldn't warn us if there were only a matter of mins before a strike

the unlucky ones are the ones that survive.  sad but true.

nuff said, for now.

That is where the real issue lies.

Today, everyone in Hawaii is really lucky that it was a false alarm for whatever reason.  Next time, it may be the real thing.  The issue is not about improving the missile defence or civilian alert systems or trying to get Hawaii to increase its emergency food reserves.

The real issue people living in Hawaii and more so on Oahu should be starting to think about is the question of whether having so many military assets in Hawaii, particularly on Oahu is really a great idea.  Unless you have access to the underground or in-mountain bunkers the military possesses, no amount of preps or survival gear will matter in the case of a nuclear strike resulting in HECO going down, radiation contamination of our soils and water supply, shipping companies not wanting to risk coming to Hawaii in the aftermath, and your own neighbors who will be ready to kill you for all of your preps, since they did not make the efforts to prepare for themselves.

The elderly, disabled, prescription/dialysis dependent, illegal drug user, and every other man, woman, and child living in Hawaii will always live in fear of as well as surviving a nuclear attack, unless the US military makes the right decision of relocating its assets to some other island location.  If they can find the money to pay for the every increasing budget of the rail for the next 10+ years, no one can say they can not find the money to keep its populace out of harm's way.

And for FEMA, forget about them...

That is where the real issue lies.

Today, everyone in Hawaii is really lucky that it was a false alarm for whatever reason.  Next time, it may be the real thing.  The issue is not about improving the missile defence or civilian alert systems or trying to get Hawaii to increase its emergency food reserves.

The real issue people living in Hawaii and more so on Oahu should be starting to think about is the question of whether having so many military assets in Hawaii, particularly on Oahu is really a great idea.  Unless you have access to the underground or in-mountain bunkers the military possesses, no amount of preps or survival gear will matter in the case of a nuclear strike resulting in HECO going down, radiation contamination of our soils and water supply, shipping companies not wanting to risk coming to Hawaii in the aftermath, and your own neighbors who will be ready to kill you for all of your preps, since they did not make the efforts to prepare for themselves.

The elderly, disabled, prescription/dialysis dependent, illegal drug user, and every other man, woman, and child living in Hawaii will always live in fear of as well as surviving a nuclear attack, unless the US military makes the right decision of relocating its assets to some other island location.  If they can find the money to pay for the every increasing budget of the rail for the next 10+ years, no one can say they can not find the money to keep its populace out of harm's way.

And for FEMA, forget about them...

so after removing the military who provides us with early warning, how would Hawaii detect a missile launch?

You are basing your statement on the belief that Hawaii would remain a target for nuclear weapons if there was no US military assets on its soil.  Although any city is subject to attack in the case of nuclear war, nation states in the 21st century do not waste their hi-cost strategic weaponry on non-military objectives.  Hawaii will always be a prime military objective due to the amount of military assets it possesses.  You don't see American Samoa or Puerto Rico living under threat of nuclear missile attack like Hawaii.

You’ve preached on the whole “military shouldn’t be on Oahu” deal many times. What would you propose the people who don’t think the military belongs on Oahu do about it? Ask the military to abandon Oahu installations? Never gonna happen. Ask the military to build bases on other islands in the Pacific? Sure thing. Seeing the clusterf*#k that is going on with the development of a new installation for USMC on Guam, building installations for replace those one Oahu will never happen in my lifetime.

If the US military has and continues to build strategic overseas bases that we know and those that that the American people do not know about as we speak, which we can infer that they have money to do so; why is it so hard for you to entertain or welcome the possibility of relocating military assets off Oahu?  Don't you want yourself and the residents in Hawaii to not live in perpetual fear of nuclear war?

What I rhetorically ask is not anti-military, it is pro-life for all living in Hawaii.  And today was our wake-up call.

What are you basing your presumption that Hawaii, sans military assets will not be a target?
What doctrine or strategy dictates that?

Your argument of being safe relies on the presumption that Hawaii presents itself as a target solely because of its military presence.
How do you know how North Korea or any other nuclear capable country chooses its targets? What's their targeting processes? How are targets weighed and prioritized?

I base my statement not on a stated military doctrine, but on basic economic common sense.  Like I said in my previous response to your post, America Samoa and Puerto Rico are US possessions.  Although they may have some military presence there, it does not compare to the military presence in Hawaii.  Hence, a country will not waste its nuclear arsenal on targets with very little military significance like in the case of American Samoa or Puerto Rico.

Unless the DPRK wants to bomb our golf courses, GMO agriculture fields, or overpriced Ward condos, I don't think there is anything the DPRK would want to waste their limited nuclear missiles on, except for Hawaii's military assets.

If the US military has and continues to build strategic overseas bases that we know and those that that the American people do not know about as we speak, which we can infer that they have money to do so; why is it so hard for you to entertain or welcome the possibility of relocating military assets off Oahu?  Don't you want yourself and the residents in Hawaii to not live in perpetual fear of nuclear war?

What I rhetorically ask is not anti-military, it is pro-life for all living in Hawaii.  And today was our wake-up call.

I can only imagine how this investigation is going to be handled.
There will be a request for Federal money.
We'll spend that money on "local" investigators (mainland firms)
We''ll conclude that it was Trump's fault.
No one will be fired.

So far, this is the "Dumbest Tweet of the Day: Celebrity Edition" -==>>

overpriced Ward condos

And they will be promoted!