I think there's a link to all the details on welcomehome.org, but
basically it was told to me this way: govt wanted land in arizona or someplace,
indians said no, govt said 'okay, u know that land in MS u want?  we will
fux0r it, then.'  indians still said no, govt fux0red it.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Elias Sinderson wrote:
> Heh. Never mind the perfectly good desert in the southwest, right? Or is
> that area too hot for desert warfare training? I'll never understand.
> >Okay, I'll ammend that to LIVE OLD tree saving, like the thousands of
> >acres of virgin pine forest that was razed here in MS so that our military
> >can practice desert warfare?  Fought it for years, lost, now there is a
> >stand of trees up and down Hwy 49 that's supposed to try to hide the fact
> >that a huge portion of the Desoto Ntl. Forest is gone.

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if it were me, i think i'd have a spare set of tanks in ft. irwin, and
just move the soldiers.
On 31 Jul 2002, James Rogers wrote:
> The first is logistical: Virtually all the mechanized infantry units are
> located east of the Rockies, and it must be very expensive to move
> entire heavy combat divisions a couple thousand miles every time they
> want to run training exercises.  This is particularly true since so much
> of our military is made up of reserve components these days, meaning
> that you can't move the soldiers to where the training facilities are.
>
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