[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Brookley Army Air Field (AL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Editorial: Overdue for a Face Lift


Editorial
Mobile Press-Register (AL)
February 23, 2011

With or without Air Force tanker contract, Airport Authority should  
refurbish Brookley Aeroplex.

BROOKLEY AEROPLEX, south of downtown Mobile, represents the best of  
the past and the best of the future.

Brookley Army Air Field may be best recognized as the workhorse for  
the U.S. Army Air Corps that drew thousands of civilians from all  
over the region to help with the Allied effort before and during  
World War II. It then became an air base, which unfortunately  
succumbed to the largest base closure in history in the 1960s.

Since that time, Brookley has hosted the space shuttle, staged a  
movie production and, most important, morphed into a modern hub for  
international aerospace.

Now, of course, it is poised to become the assembly site for the Air  
Force’s aerial refueling tankers — that is, if the Department of  
Defense awards the potentially $40 billion contract to EADS, the  
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.al.com/press-register-commentary/2011/02/ 
editorial_overdue_for_a_face_l.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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