Room to Maneuver
Sizing up a land grab
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
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