[CPEO-IRF] Fort Pickett (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Town not rattled by base closure

By Michael Felberbaum/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Times (DC)
March 3, 2007

BLACKSTONE, Va. -- Growing up, Larry Palmore paid no mind to the windows 
of his family farmhouse rattling or dishes in the cabinet shaking from 
the explosions emanating from nearby Fort Pickett.

"They've got to train somewhere," Mr. Palmore said of the soldiers at 
the 42,000-acre post about an hour southeast of Richmond. "We're a very 
patriotic town. Since 1941, everyone grew up with it: listening to the 
booms and the windows rattling and paying no attention to it."

As manager of this town of 3,600, Mr. Palmore welcomes each year about 
80,000 troops who train in Blackstone -- and the explosions that may 
come with it.

While Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) closings 
have been a death knell for some bases nationwide and the businesses 
that rely on them, Fort Pickett has not only survived since it was 
recommended for closure in 1995, but has prospered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20070302-103949-4689r.htm

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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