[CPEO-IRF] AP overview of BRAC 05 impacts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Towns gear up for military job gains, losses

JAMES HANNAH, Associated Press
Wichita Eagle (KS)
May 28, 20006

DAYTON, Ohio - Just off the runway at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a 
spider's web of girders reaches for the sky. The steel skeleton will 
soon become the first of three hangars to house massive C-5 transport 
planes.

And coming soon are 17 building projects to handle new airmen and 
missions moving in as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process. 
The C-5 hangars - not part of the base realignment - are giving 
Wright-Patterson a sweet taste of its future.

Seven months after Congress approved the base reshuffling, military 
communities coast to coast are making expansion plans or putting up "For 
Sale" signs.

In Virginia, where the 11,300-worker base population at Fort Lee is 
expected to nearly double when soldiers transfer in from other 
installations, community leaders are gleefully bracing for a wave of new 
home buyers, shoppers and students.

But in Kansas, officials are scrambling to privatize an Army munitions 
plant targeted for shutdown and open some of the land for hunting and 
fishing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/14685525.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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