The GSA has announced Preferred Site and Public Meetings for the Proposed U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Security Training Center in Queen Anne’s County.
The schedule for the two meetings is as follows:
GSA Public Project Overview Meeting: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Queen Anne’s County High School located at 125 Ruthsburg Road, Centreville, MD.
GSA Public Scoping Meeting For Purposes of NEPA/NHPA: Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Queen Anne’s County High School located at 125 Ruthsburg Road, Centreville, MD.
“This project has the potential to provide a big boost to our local economy, and like any major project, members of the community have many questions. I’m pleased that public meetings have been set for this project so that the community will get the opportunity to have their questions answered, review the facts, and provide their input. I look forward to this important next step.”
-Rep Frank Kratovil
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Foreign Affairs Security Training Center in MD. is probably the worst idea I've heard in a long time. They are going to be training individuals with explosives, driving cars and SUV's at high speeds and crashing...and they will be firing millions of bullets with various small arms on their multiple ranges, some with crew-service weapons with explosive warheads. These same individuals are are going to be living in the area and fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. Locations like this you don't publicize in the newspapers, you put them in the desert in New Mexico, where no one lives or you place them on MILITARY INSTALLATIONS or BASES. Why? For security reasons, to protect those who work there and the community they are in. Worse idea I've heard in a long time. Good place for this would be on a former / retired military installation, that was shut down during the Clinton Administration, not in a bedroom community where people don't want it to begin with.
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