26 December 2007

Military Traiing on Savannah River Site Property?

I first heard this story on GPB Radio while on the way to work this morning and found the story on the Savannah Morning News website when I was looking at the news this afternoon:

http://savannahnow.com/node/421007

The gist of the story is that the Department of Defense is looking at using part of the Savannah River Site property south of Augusta for light infantry and special ops training. The property is attractive for such a use because it is relatively remote, is very dark at night due to no close urban areas, and because of it's difficult terrain.

If it does come to be used for a training area, we here in the Savannah area may be able to catch some communications from the training. Low-level air-to-ground traffic will likely be out of range, but middle to high altitude air-to-ground traffic should be in range for many Savannah listeners.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net