[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Quantico Marine Corps Base (VA) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marines want to protect the base


Forest land at Quantico offers an excellent place for Marines to train, 
and the military would like to keep it that way.

BY JONAS BEALS
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (VA)
March 11, 2009

Joe Provenzano remembers the endless orange groves that used to surround 
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in the early 1980s.

That base, built on a lima-bean field near Irvine, Calif., in 1942, 
became one of the most important military airfields in the West. In 
1999, El Toro--now surrounded by houses and shopping centers--closed.

The U.S. Navy, which oversees Marine Corps property, learned a lesson 
from El Toro: Protect your mission. The Navy is concerned Marine Corps 
Base Quantico may suffer the same fate, and is taking steps to ensure 
growth around the base doesn't eventually choke out training.

Provenzano, the deputy director for Base Facilities at Quantico, 
addressed a gathering of Stafford landowners on Monday evening. The 
group had been invited to the meeting because their property has 
long-term strategic value to the base. Officials from Quantico are not 
interested in buying the property, they want the property to remain as 
it is.

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For the entire article, see
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/032009/03112009/451405

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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