[CPEO-MEF] "Sprawl puts the squeeze on training ranges"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sprawl puts the squeeze on training ranges 

BY MARYANN SPOTO 
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ) 
November 29, 2004

As urban sprawl oozed beyond the Las Vegas city limits in the mid-1980s,
Nellis Air Force Base, some eight miles to the north, felt the growing
pains, too. 

Besieged with complaints about noise and concerns about accidental
bombings or shootings, the training base restricted where and when
pilots could fly with live ammunition. 

Today, there are 100 or so fewer training flights every year at Nellis,
and pilots don't necessarily simulate combat conditions ecause they
don't always practice at low altitudes or approach targets from varying
angles, base officials said. 

Changes like the ones at Nellis are being felt across the country. There
are more than 100 military training ranges in the United States, and
many have been forced to make concessions as sprawl squeezes training
areas that once operated in he middle of nowhere. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1101707517206980.xml

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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
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