DOD Lays Out Framework To Sustain Ranges, Address Encroachment

By Suzanne Yohannan / January 28, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz earlier this month signed an overarching directive that establishes a uniform policy for ensuring the long-term sustainment of military test and training ranges, laying out a framework for how the military plans to ensure its ranges can continue to support realistic training and how issues such as environmental encroachment will be addressed, according to the directive obtained by sister publication Defense Environment Alert . The Jan. 10 directive particularly stresses the need for input from...

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