The father of Schofield Barracks soldier Ikaika E. Kang said he was “stunned” to learn today that the FBI arrested his son over the weekend for alleged ties to the terrorist group Islamic State. 
 
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 The father of Schofield Barracks soldier Ikaika E. Kang said he was “stunned” to learn today that the FBI arrested his son over the weekend for alleged ties to the terrorist group Islamic State. 
 
 “Nobody told me anything. This is the first time I heard about” it, said Clifford Kang when reached by telephone by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser this afternoon. “I’m kind of stunned to tell you the truth.” 
 
 “I never heard of him being with ISIS,” Kang said. 
 
 Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, an air traffic control operator, has been stationed at Schofield Barracks for almost three years. He entered the Army right after graduating from Kaiser High School in 2001. He served two tours, the first in Iraq and the second in Afghanistan. 
 
 The senior Kang said his son started studying the Islamic faith a couple of years ago during one of his deployments. 
 
 He last saw his son about two weeks ago when Ikaika visited him at his Kailua home for a barbecue. A Vietnam veteran, the father recalled that he told his son how proud he was of being a parent of an Army soldier. 
 
 Ikaika Kang was born and raised in Waimanalo. During his youth, he loved surfing at Makapuu and playing baseball and football, according to his father. 
 
 In his adulthood, Kang became involved in mixed martial arts. He competed in a couple of tournaments when he was stationed in Kansas City. 
 
 Kang has lived in an apartment in Royal Kunia for the last couple of years. ||||| HONOLULU (AP) — An active duty Army soldier has been arrested by the FBI in Hawaii on terrorism charges after he allegedly attempted to provide classified documents and a drone to the Islamic State group, officials said Monday. 
 
 A criminal complaint filed by the FBI said Ikaika Kang attempted to provide classified and unclassified military documents and a drone to the organization. It said Kang also tried to teach the group combat techniques. 
 
 FBI spokesman Arnold Laanui said SWAT team special agents arrested the 34-year-old on Saturday. Laanui said Kang is scheduled for an initial appearance in federal court on Monday afternoon. 
 
 His military service record said Kang was an air traffic control operator at Wheeler Army Airfield. His rank was sergeant first class. 
 
 Kang enlisted in the Army in December 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks. He served in Iraq from March 2010 to February 2011 and Afghanistan from July 2013 to April 2014. 
 
 Kang was assigned to the headquarters of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade. 
 
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 Baldor reported from Washington.
– An active-duty soldier who said he wanted to kill a "bunch of people" has been arrested on terrorism charges after allegedly trying to provide assistance to ISIS, the FBI says. FBI spokesman Arnold Laanui says Ikaika Kang, a 34-year-old air traffic control operator at Hawaii's Wheeler Arm Airfield, was arrested on Saturday night, the AP reports. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday, Kang is accused of trying to provide the militant group with military documents and a drone. He is also accused of making a video to try to teach the group combat techniques. At a court hearing Monday, agents said Kang was arrested after telling an undercover agent he wanted to kill people and pledging allegiance to ISIS. The FBI says Kang appears to have been a "lone actor" whose attempt to pass classified materials to ISIS failed. Kang, a sergeant first class, enlisted a few months after 9/11 and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His father tells the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that Kang began studying the Islamic faith during a deployment a few years ago. Clifford Kang says he is stunned by the allegations. He says his son is "a great kid, a normal kid" who grew up in Hawaii. The father and defense lawyer Birney Bervar say Kang may be suffering from PTSD. Kang "may suffer from service-related mental health issues, which the government was aware of but neglected to treat," Bervar tells Hawaii News Now.