Hawaii had one great complication during the Second Great Depression. It was a major naval base and the largest critical depot for American naval operations in the Pacific. They had everything from weapons and ammunition for the military to tents and packaged food for disaster response in the many warehouses scattered all over the islands. Those supply depots were an invaluable resource for Hawaii, if they could access them. The problem was that the United States Navy secured most of those depots. Or the Marine Corps. Even the Air Force and Army had their toes in the pie. The problem for Hawaii was that these were all National units. Hawaii’s State Guard was extremely small, while the vast majority of those stationed there came from the Mainland. They answered to the President of the United States, not the Governor of Hawaii. Governor Mahana needed those supplies to keep her islands running as long as possible, but she couldn’t order them to give her anything. That started a rather delicate dance between her dreams of Hawaiian sovereignty and cooperating with the very patriotic American Armed Forces scattered throughout her islands. It was a good thing for everybody that Governor Mahana was an accomplished dancer.