Army Wants More Training Space
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 21, 2007 | 12:19 PM
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 21, 2007 | 12:19 PM
The Army wants to increase the total size of its training areas by 70 percent, USA Today reports. That would involve adding almost 5 million acres worth of space by 2011. The service says the problem is that most of its existing ranges just aren't big enough to accommodate new faster vehicles and high-tech weapons. Adding to the problem is the fact that the Army is boosting the size of its forces and presumably at some point will be bringing a whole bunch of people home from overseas.
Of course, any effort to add more space will involve getting the necessary funding and overcoming the inevitable environmental issues associated with large-scale military training.
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Well it looks like the right hand don't care what the left hand is doing.
Dang, imagine that we work together. HA !! HA !!
The Marines are in the same boat. Here in California, we have two separate desert warfare training bases, Fort Irwin and MCAGCC 29 Palms which are approximately 100 miles apart with basically the same mission. Both bases are under pressure to preserve the fragile desert environment. Realizing the cultural differences between the two services, I still wonder if how much taxpayer's dollars can be saved if these two bases would share a common desert training area.
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