Businessmen's Military Training Corps

The Businessmen's Military Training Corps was a white and part-Hawaiian militia unit^[2] to prevent collaboration of Japanese-Americans as a result of a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. The militia was made up of 17 companies, two thirds of which were World War I veterans. Their main activates were patrolling, security, and battle planning. In response to their bias toward whites the Hawaii Defense Volunteers a predominantly Chinese-American militia formed.^[3]