[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Galena Air Force Station (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Galena officially takes over Air Force station as education facility

By Rena Delbridge
Fairbannks Daily News-Miner (AK)
September 24, 2008



FAIRBANKS - An Air Force station formed in 1943 to assist Russia’s fight 
against Germany brought jobs and people to the city of Galena, 
population 650, on the middle Yukon River.

...

The Galena Interior Distance Learning Academy, a boarding school now in 
its 12th year at the station, is a major beneficiary of the former Air 
Force buildings, which sit on land owned by the state and formerly 
leased to the military. The Galena station was among installations 
ordered closed in 2005 based on recommendations by the Base Realignment 
and Closure Commission. At the time, the Pentagon estimated savings of 
$49 billion in 20 years by closing inefficient bases and streamlining 
services across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/sep/24/galena-officially-takes-over-air-force-station-edu/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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