The U.S. Army has narrowed to three the properties it is considering for relocating 6,200 employees originally slated to move to Fort Belvoir in southeastern Fairfax County, Army officials said.
They said the Army will consider two privately owned commercial properties in Alexandria, the Mark Center near Interstate 395 and Seminary Road and the Victory Center [...]

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Soldiers who want to see what the Army’s stationing plan looks like through 2013 can go to a new Web site called Grow the Army, which is also known by its shorter name “GTA.”
The site, launched Friday, days after Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody announced the plans in a Pentagon press conference.
The [...]

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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Dec. 19, 2007) - Secretary of the Army Pete Geren and Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody today announced plans to activate three new units in 2008, and other unit-stationing decisions to support the Army’s growth by up to 74,200 Soldiers, including 65,000 active-duty Soldiers, by 2010.
The stationing plans [...]

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On Thursday at the Pentagon, U.S. Army Europe commander Gen. David McKiernan said the current U.S. troop strength in Europe should be cut only slightly - and that brigades in Schweinfurt and Baumholder should stay put - in the most specific statement yet about a possible softening of the plan to reduce the military’s footprint [...]

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Shutdowns will affect 2,400 soldiers
Base closings

Department of Defense officials on Wednesday announced a timeline for the closure of several bases and facilities at communities in Germany:

Fiscal 2007

Mannheim
Turley Barracks

Fiscal 2008

Büdingen
Armstrong Barracks
Armstrong Village Family Housing
Büdingen Ammunition Area
Büdingen Army Heliport
Tiergarten Training Area

Gelnhausen
Coleman Village Family Housing

Fiscal 2009

Darmstadt **
AG Publishing and Training Aids Center
Bensheim Maintenance & Supply Facility
Cambrai Fritsch [...]

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Expansion requirements practically creating 2nd Fort Bliss
The Army wants to send about 11,000 additional soldiers to Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range as part of a plan to expand the nation’s military, officials said Wednesday.
"The Army would like to bring three brigade combat teams to Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range and is [...]

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Two wild cards include money for transportation, GSA warehouses
Who’s Coming?Six major groups are slated for realignment to Fort Belvoir by Sept. 15, 2011 as a result of BRAC. Those groups and personnel numbers and for each are:
* National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), 8,500 personnel * Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), 9,263 personnel * Army Lease, 2,720 [...]

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