removing homes to keep Navy Jets at Patuxent River

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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St. Mary's Defends Lifeblood
County Targets Homes in Patuxent Base's Way

By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post 
July 20, 2004

Every so often, up above the crumbling houses tangled in ivy and weeds, a
Navy jet screams through the sky. The jets sound low enough to land on one
of the flat roofs of the hundreds of apartments in Lexington Manor, but
most people don't even look up: It's just part of life here.

Patuxent River Naval Air Station, just across the road, permeates
everything here -- not just in this Lexington Park neighborhood with broken
windows, rotting doors and jet noise -- but across St. Mary's County.

Never is that more clear than when the congressionally mandated base
realignment and closure process -- known as BRAC -- looms. Next spring, the
secretary of defense will give a list of recommended changes to the
president and then Congress.

Business and political leaders in St. Mary's are doing everything they can
to keep the base, where the Navy's newest jets are tested, off that list --
including finding a way to wipe out the Lexington Manor apartments,
clearing the flight path.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63161-2004Jul19.html?referrer
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