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Stare Master
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The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday May 29, 2008 6:40:38 EDT AYER, Mass. — The Army is planning to spend up to $100 million to build a training facility at the site of the former Fort Devens military base in central Massachusetts. Army spokesman Dave Foster tells The Sun of Lowell that the Armed Forces Reserve Center is expected to include three primary buildings totaling nearly 280,000 square feet on about 57 acres. The project will be staffed by about 650 soldiers and Marines and include space to store nearly 800 military vehicles. Foster says the project will cost between $50 million and $100 million and will be completed by July 2010.
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Seasoned Vet
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| Hmmm part of my old "stomping grounds"... They never did shut it down Completely, I was the last AD Soldier outprocessed from there back in 2005. It still maintains a Reserve and Guard presence, but this expansion is going to be well liked by the community up there. Hmmm wonder what type of Govt Jobs will be available there...
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What kind of training? Aside from the requisite Stripes answer, that is.
Last man out, huh? How was it when it was running? I went up there over Christmas to hit their MCCS. That joint is in the middle of nowhere.
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Regular Joe
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| Man You gotta be kidding me? They should leave that place the way it is IMO. I spent 5 1/2 years at Devens. Unless the training to be conducted there is to be mostley school house then they should establish the school elsewhere for mulitple reasons. 1. The post is too small. So small that on the longest range maximum you can fire is a charge 3 from an 81 mm mortor. 2. It is too close to too many small communities. My team was doing live fire training on a 105 mm recoiless and Range Control shut us down after three rounds. An old woman from near by Harvard called up hysterically claiming the noise was causing her husband to have a heart attack. 3. There are several small private airfields in the area the pilots had no respect for the law. Time and again we would have to cease fire on the ranges because of small, low flying, private aircraft blatantly violating the federally restricted airspace over the post. Twice that I can remember, we were standing up in our jump aircraft ready to jump onto Turner DZ and the jump was stopped because of private pilots tailing our aircraft too closley trying to watch us come out the door. The jump aircraft had to make multiple race tracks with us standing and the pilots calling Logan in Boston or somewhere else to get air traffic controlers to warn off the jerks. The post lies under a primary approach corridor to Logan Airport in Boston. For this reason our Halo teams went elsewhere to train. They were not allowed to jump above 10,000 ft above post. 5. Though the citizens of Ayer (right out the back gate) and Shirely, MA will probably be glad to have to post grow the rest in the area probably will not. Heck even when the post was active I bumped in plenty of people from places like Leominster just down the road that didn't even know the post was active. And believe me the attitude of many towards the military was not that great. I was part of an honor guard that presented the colors at a Bruins game at the old Boston Gardens. We were heckled by some in the crowd as we marched out onto the ice and even during the playing of the national athem. IMO they should leave that area to be the Silicon Valley of the east as it already is.
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