[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, PRESERVATION: Former Bainbridge Naval Training Center (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SAVING BAINBRIDGE MUSEUM: Tiny space is one of the last remnants of  
our once-thriving Naval training base (WITH VIDEO)

By Katy Ciamaricone
Cecil Daily Whig (MD)
February 28, 2012

In its heyday, the United States Naval Training Center at Bainbridge  
was a 1,200-acre, full-fledged military base where nearly 40,000  
recruits at a time went through boot camp and other training to  
prepare for war.

...

But in the past 36 years since Bainbridge closed, the site has  
stagnated. It is at once wild and abandoned – a military ghost town.

"The base is now covered in scrub trees, weeds and brush and is  
littered with cast-off concrete boulders, crumbling sign monuments  
with ghostly lettering, and a few dozen derelict buildings determined  
to fight the elements and neglect, to survive one more decade," Erika  
Quesenbery writes in her 2007 book "United States Naval Training  
Center, Bainbridge," a history of the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cecildaily.com/features/local/ 
article_425a4202-5f2d-11e1-9459-0019bb2963f4.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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