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...Pentagon told the independent base-closing commission it wants to shutter Fort McClellan's 46,000 acres, nestled in the Appalachian foothills just outside the city of Anniston. Most of its operations, including the military's police and chemical schools, would be sent 350 miles north to Fort Leonard Wood, 63,000 acres of Ozarks wrapped by a national forest and near a few tiny towns...
...recent recommendation by the Pentagon to move the world's only known school using lethal nerve agents from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri has sparked a ferocious public relations battle. As Alabama partisans engage in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the move and keep the facility, Missouri is in such a rush to claim the prize that some of its citizens fear the state is cutting corners and keeping them in the dark...
Officer John Okane, who was patrolling near the Harvard Medical School, observed a man who appeared agitated and was trying to interfere with firefighters who had been called to the blaze at 46 Fen-wood Road...
Sometime during the first morning, we crossed the Elbe River on a bridge choked with traffic: army trucks and fighting vehicles, refugee carts, and overloaded cars powered by wood gas, all headed west. At the eastern end of the span, panic erupted when military policemen announced that it was about to be closed. Somehow our truck was allowed to pass, but even as we inched across the bridge, Wehrmacht sappers were attaching charges to its stone arches, and moments after we reached the other side, we heard the dull explosive thump that indicated the span had been blown...
Comfort level: High. Aesthetically pleasing. as well it should be. Chairs are contoured wood, floor is carpeted, ceilings are high. Tables are specious; sparse studying population means you can spread all your books out at your pleasure...