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Defense downsizing to lead to cuts at Alaska bases

...downsizing effort, the Defense Department announced this week.Fort Wainwright could lose up to 62 civilian positions; Fort Greely also could lose six positions, and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson could lose 10 positions, the Daily News-Miner...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-12-11/defense-downsizing-lead-cuts-alaska-bas
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Roughhouse Friday: Anchorage fighter continues to dominate Juneau

...I wanted to have a good fight before I left," Lopez, a National Guard Military Policeman, said. "I leave for Fort Greely tomorrow. He said he doesn't like being pushed around. Yeah, I out weigh him by a bit but I fought fighters that...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2011-10-24/roughhouse-friday-anchorage-fighter-co
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Begich: military cuts expected in future

...was helped in the process by testimony about its valuable strategic location.This time, construction under way at Fort Greely and Clear Air Force Station should give those installations some level of protection, Begich said."The amount of...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-11-30/begich-military-cuts-expected-future
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Military: Alaska installations exposed

...and two major Air Force bases - Eielson, southeast of Fairbanks, and Elmendorf, just north of downtown Anchorage. Fort Greely, targeted in the last round of closures in 1995, has been resurrected as a primary site of the new national ballistic...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051105/sta_20050511070.shtml
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Leaky Fort Greely barrels not weapon material

...War II-era barrels unearthed at Fort Greely last month apparently contained...about a mile from the main group of Fort Greely buildings and less than 2 miles...who were preparing the site for Fort Greely's National Missile Defense System...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052602/sta_barrels.shtml
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State finds $1 million to cover Delta Junction debt

...from an abortive attempt to locate a private prison at Fort Greely in 1998. The city previously paid $100,000 to the...the city on lands made available if the military post Fort Greely was reduced in size. But in early 1999, after elections...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060402/sta_deltajunc.shtml
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Cuts spur layoffs at Fort Greely

...50 civilian contract workers at Fort Greely and another 160 positions are threatened...budget tightening, the Army said Fort Greely employed about 1,000 civilians...there "are not compromised." Fort Greely, about 100 miles southeast of...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060406/sta_20060604021.shtml
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Some military experts say downsizing Eielson makes perfect sense

...Alaska's security-sensitive spots, such as the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the anti-missile interceptor site at Fort Greely. Hellman said fighters aren't relevant. "I suspect that if terrorists were going after the pipeline, they wouldn't...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061305/sta_20050613012.shtml
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State Briefs

...missile project DELTA JUNCTION - Two dozen protesters objected to the new national missile defense system test bed at Fort Greely on Friday. The city was swarming with military personnel and media, including reporters from Japan and Great Britain...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061602/sta_stbriefs.shtml
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Analysts: AK missile site won't be a target

...as the one under construction at Fort Greely, because no terrorist with a missile...United States, they say. The Fort Greely test range in the short term will...siting of the test missiles at Fort Greely in my view represents a greater...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061702/sta_missiles.shtml
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