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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Fort Irwin

Fort Irwin stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - The Army plans to evict more than 1,000 endangered desert tortoises to expand a tank training ground in the Mojave Desert, the Los Angeles Times reports. Conservationists warn that the last effort to shift the tortoises proved disastrous: Many were wiped out by predators, and others traveled up... More »

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endangered species • California • Fort Irwin • US military • wildlife • US Army • Mojave Desert • Bureau of Land Management • tortoise

Army Uses Injured to Inflate Manpower

Injured soldiers deployed to training camps—and back to Iraq—in effort to boost active duty rolls

Mar 26, 07 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Army sent  soldiers recovering from injuries—some still on crutches—to a desert training center in California, in an apparent attempt to pad manpower statistics. Witnesses describe tents at Fort Irwin packed with soldiers in no shape to train, or even to walk, but counted by the Pentagon as... More »

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military • Pentagon • Fort Irwin • injury • US Army

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