[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "20 years after the vote to close Fort McClellan [AL], officials are making progress toward a revival"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

20 years after the vote to close Fort McClellan, officials are making progress toward a revival

By Jacki Lowry
Yellow Hammer Alabama News Center
September 17, 2015

The U.S. Army played taps to Fort McClellan years ago, but the property may be on the verge of a new type of reveille.

Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Fort McClellan is known mostly for its long run as an Army training camp, producing soldiers and officers of the Chemical Corps, Military Police and other ranks. For more than 81 years, thousands of American troops spent time at the Anniston base.

These days the soldiers are gone, families have relocated and the once booming community is searching to regain its glory.

After the 1980s, with shrinking defense budgets and ever-increasing costs, the U.S. military was forced to look for opportunities to decrease expenses. Officials on the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) concluded the fort should be closed in the early 90s.

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For the entire article, see
http://yellowhammernews.com/business-2/20-years-after-vote-to-close-fort-mcclellan-officials-are-making-progress-toward-a-revival/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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