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Pinon Canyon Expansion On Hold
Thursday, the Army agreed not to press ahead with its controversial expansion of a 368-square-mile training site in southeast Colorado until it discusses possible "win-win" solutions with nearby residents and political leaders. Reporter: Associated Press |
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Dustin; Do you know what you are talking about? The top officials at Fort Carson have told us (the land owners) that they don't need the land. The suits in Washington are the ones who want it. I have also been told by several top people at Fort Carson who have served in Iraq, that they have never used Pinon Canyon and don't see that they will in the future even if it expands. All troops are sent to El Paso - you should know this.
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When bases are closing all across the country, when the government owns approximately 83% of Nevada, why do they need more land? This is not in the least bit like Iraq. I'm all for training our troops and I'm grateful for all they do, but lets get realistic. The government has all the space it needs. To me, the Mexican border would be more appropriate. Save the money of building fences and just put the troops there. It has been years! since there have been large numbers of troops at the existing PCMS training. And we need more land because why? What they already took isn't good enough? I don't think everyone realizes exactly how large the area and the impact to the County will be.
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We need the extra space todays training requirments make it hard to train on so little space they are trying to focus on the warfighter which everyone else in the country should do to
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