U.S. Army:Five million acres needed for training facilities by 2011

As the U.S. military budget balloons, so does the Armed Services’ need to train its soldiers. In fact, some military planners foresee a need for 5 million more acres for training facilities by 2011.
In September, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) told his fellow Congressmen that “the Army believes it has a current deficit of 2 million acres needed for training, a figure expected to grow by 2011 to 5 million acres.” Five million acres is comprable to 7,812 square miles -- an area about the size of New Jersey.

This is quite scary & interesting.Its the ranchers vs. the Pentagon & Colorado business interests.

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existing thread here:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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Breaking News submissions and ATS/BTS/AP threads are considered seperate, and may have the same subject.

This, I didn't know -- thanks for the info.

Even w/ the exact same titles? Seems like a serverspace waste but from perusing the archives, ATS doesn't appear to be the kinda site that purges.

Hmmm I did try to search for any other threads but couldn't find it,but now I know.
I'll just flag anhinga's thread to get it some attention.Sorry about that.

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