[CPEO-IRF] More training at Hawthorne Depot (NV)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Increased training keeps Hawthorne depot viable


STEVE RANSON
Nevada Appeal
August 7, 2007

Editor's note: This is the first story of a five-part series about 
increased military training in Central Nevada. LVN Sports Editor Steve 
Ranson, a member of the Nevada Army National Guard who serves as public 
affairs officer for Joint Forces Headquarters, spent his summer looking 
at the military's expanded role in desert training.

Longtime Hawthorne newspaper publisher Tony Hughes has seen his hometown 
ride an economic roller coaster driven by the will of the military.

Hughes, co-owner of the Mineral County Independent News and a retired 
National Guard master sergeant, has seen increased military training at 
the Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD), a situation that hasn't occurred much 
since the waning days of the Vietnam conflict.

"A lot of things are going down here" said the 23-year veteran who spent 
most of his time with the Nevada Army National Guard. "We have had the 
guard's signal battalion and maintenance company here. We have the Navy 
SEALs here all the time. The Marines from Hawaii and Okinawa spent a 
week out here as did companies from Camp Pendleton and the USMC Mountain 
Warfare Center."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/LF/20070807/News/108070028/-1/REGION

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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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