Fort Riley bustling even as soldiers away

[unhappycamper]

Fort Riley bustling even as soldiers away
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 24, 2007 15:10:35 EST

FORT RILEY, Kan. — Though more than half the soldier population is deployed to war, an army of another kind continues to toil.

They are electricians, carpenters, truck drivers and painters. Combined, they represent a continuation of the effort started more than two years ago to make room for the 1st Infantry Division’s return from Germany.

“It’s absolutely mind-boggling the amount of work we are getting accomplished,” said Michael Goreham, chief of master planning for Fort Riley.

The goal is to build enough new facilities to handle a projected soldier population of more than 19,000 in the next three years. That means more barracks, offices, maintenance facilities, hangars for helicopters and other support structures. Additional housing is being built at an equally rapid pace in the surrounding communities.

“There’s a lot of moving parts. There’s growth and, with any growth, there’s growing pains,” said Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin, commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley.

New developments that weren’t expected for several years are quickly filling with single-family housing and apartment complexes. The Army figures that close to 60 percent of the new soldiers coming to Fort Riley will have families. There isn’t enough room to build all the housing on post, meaning communities as far as 25 miles away have seen a building boom.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_fortriley_071124/



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[saigon68]

1. I'm sure Kellogg Brown and Root have their sticky fingers in this.