[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION, MUNITIONS: Townsend Marine Bombing Range (GA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy might double the size of bombing range in Georgia to aid Beaufort 
pilots

By PATRICK DONOHUE
Beaufort Gazette (SC)
August 11, 2010


Navy officials might purchase as much as 45,000 acres near a Georgia 
bombing range to give pilots from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort a 
chance to train closer to home.

The Navy announced plans last week to expand Townsend Bombing Range, a 
5,183-acre range in McIntosh County, Ga. owned by the air station.

According to a notice published in the Federal Register, the Navy could 
opt to purchase some combination or all of three parcels near the range 
identified as possible expansion sites. If approved, the range could 
grow by between 11,000 and 45,000 acres, according to the notice. The 
Navy also could opt not to expand the range, which opened in 1981 and is 
maintained by the Georgia Air National Guard.The notice did notspecify 
how much the land might cost.

At its current size, the range allows air crews to complete only 43 
percent of their training requirements and is too small to allow pilots 
to drop inert, precision-guided munitions, according to air station 
officials.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/08/11/1335869/navy-might-double-the-size-of.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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