[CPEO-MEF] Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (CO) expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Training needs put landowners on defensive

By Peter Roper
Pueblo Chieftain (CO)
February 1, 2007

FORT CARSON, Colo. - Five years of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 
have driven home a lesson to Congress that the Army needs to be 
substantially larger - and that pressure is rippling down to the Army's 
desire to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.

"[The public] isn't getting a realistic picture of our training needs 
right now because so many of our brigades are overseas in the fight," 
Maj. Gen. Robert Mixon Jr., Fort Carson's commander, said in a recent 
interview. "Our obligation is to look at the space we'd need if those 
brigades were home and to look into the future."

Mixon and Brig. Gen. James Milano, the deputy commanding general of the 
4th Infantry Division, said they recognize that ranchers and communities 
around the 238,000-acre Pinon Canyon site are afraid the government will 
condemn private land in order to expand by 416,000 acres.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/aparmyexpand070201/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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