[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Camp Bullis (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Camp Bullis 'alternatives' make no sense at all

Opinion by Carlos Guerra
San Antonio Express (TX)
June 16, 2009

The City Council will have an extra hour in tomorrow's B Session for the 
one item on the agenda: the Camp Bullis Joint Land Use Study.

Surrounded by development, Fort Sam Houston officials bought 28,000-acre 
Bullis in 1917 so soldiers could train in safer, less-populated environs.

Over the years, the camp developed into a critical training area, with 
firing ranges, maneuvering areas, airdrop zones, and landing areas for 
helicopters and fixed-wing craft. But Fort Sam and Camp Bullis are now 
best known for their developments in military medicine that give our 
wounded the highest survivability rates in history.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/columnists/carlos_guerra/48120942.html

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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>
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