Room to Maneuver

Sizing up a land grab

Trey Garrison from the March 2009 issue

At 663,000 acres, the expanded Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site would be the secondlargest active military site in the United States. Here are the current top five:

• Fort Bliss (California): 1.1 million acres
• Fort Irwin (California): 642,000 acres
• Edwards Air Force Base (California): 301,000 acres
• Fort Stewart (Georgia): 280,000 acres
• Fort Hood (Texas): 217,000 acres

The area occupied by the expanded training ground would be

• Six times as big as Barbados
• Five times as big as American Samoa
• Three times as big as New York City
• Twice as big as Grand Teton National Park
• Almost as big as Rhode Island