Yes. This needed to be done
Sep. 1st, 2005 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperx(Sorry for spamming today)
Peter (a friend of mine at work) and I were talking between ourselves in a "they should do..." manner. And -- YES! -- tonight they announced that they're doing it.
In the last couple of years many military bases have been closed. One in Alabama has been empty for a few years now. A few months ago we both were speaking with an engineer we work with who lives and works in the Fort McClellan area. He told us of how he had moved his office into the old fort, and how there have been efforts to 'civilianize' the facility since the military had retired the base. He spoke of it being a really lovely campus but that it was still under populated.
They just announced on the local news that officials are going into Fort McClellan tomorrow and cleaning it this weekend. The base (which also once served as a school) and, importantly, its military housing, will be opened for refugees as soon as they have assessed what's needed to get the base ready with water, power, etc.
Peter (a friend of mine at work) and I were talking between ourselves in a "they should do..." manner. And -- YES! -- tonight they announced that they're doing it.
In the last couple of years many military bases have been closed. One in Alabama has been empty for a few years now. A few months ago we both were speaking with an engineer we work with who lives and works in the Fort McClellan area. He told us of how he had moved his office into the old fort, and how there have been efforts to 'civilianize' the facility since the military had retired the base. He spoke of it being a really lovely campus but that it was still under populated.
They just announced on the local news that officials are going into Fort McClellan tomorrow and cleaning it this weekend. The base (which also once served as a school) and, importantly, its military housing, will be opened for refugees as soon as they have assessed what's needed to get the base ready with water, power, etc.
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Date: 2005-09-02 07:53 am (UTC)Something sensible being done for people.
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:27 pm (UTC)I guess Utah might be doing this to. About an hour away from where I live they are getting a decommissioned army base ready for about 1,000-2,000 refugees.
I hope they need volunteers.