[CPEO-MEF] Night training at Savannah River Site (SC)?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army looks to S.C. site for training in darkness


By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER/Associated Press
Aiken Standard (SC)
December 24, 2007

COLUMBIA - The military is looking for a few good acres - very, very 
dark ones.

The Army apparently has its night-vision goggles focused on the huge 
tract of federal land that makes up the 310-acre Savannah River nuclear 
complex in the southwestern portion of this state. The Army wants to 
train its light infantry units in battle exercises there that may 
include Army, Navy and Air Force Special Operations Forces.

The plan was publicized in an announcement issued last month by Andrew 
Grainger, the National Environmental Protection Act compliance officer 
at the Savannah River site. The federal government is required by law to 
announce proposed changes in its land use and seek public comment.

The exercises could involve anywhere from a handful of troops to 4,000 
soldiers that make up certain types of combat teams, the announcement said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.aikenstandard.com/2007redesign/news/22671608649437.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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