Summary
Fort George G. Meade is a U.S. military base located in Maryland's Anne Arundel County. The fort was originally Camp Meade, an Army training post created in 1917 and named after the Civil War-era Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The location for the fort was picked because of its close proximity to a railroad, Baltimore's port and Washington, D.C. In addition to functioning as a training ground during World War I, the camp housed some of the first women to serve in the Army. Known as the "Hello Girls," the women were trained as telephone operators and sent overseas. The camp became a permanent base in 1928, under the name Fort Leonard Wood; Meade's name was reapplied to the base in 1929. During World War I...
Fort George G. Meade is a U.S. military base located in Maryland's Anne Arundel County. The fort was originally Camp Meade, an Army training post created in 1917 and named after the Civil War-era Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The location for the fort was picked because of its close proximity to a railroad, Baltimore's port and Washington, D.C. In addition to functioning as a training ground during World War I, the camp housed some of the first women to serve in the Army. Known as the "Hello Girls," the women were trained as telephone operators and sent overseas. The camp became a permanent base in 1928, under the name Fort Leonard Wood; Meade's name was reapplied to the base in 1929. During World War II , the base served as a major training center and POW camp for German and Italian soldiers. Today, the base focuses on national security and intelligence. The combination of Fort Meade and the National Security Agency, which has its headquarters at Fort Meade, makes the two entities the largest employers in Maryland. Fort Meade employs about 39,000 military and civilian workers and contractors. It currently has the fourth-largest workforce of any Army installation in the U.S., and its workforce is set to grow by at least 5,000 personnel by 2010 due to the 2005 Base and Realignment Closure (BRAC).
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Correction
The lottery results in yesterday's editions of The Sun incorrectly listed the date of the next MegaMillions drawing. The numbers will be drawn tonight. An article in Wednesday's editions about Anne Arundel County's resuming testing of wells near Fort...Tags: Brooklyn Park, Dundalk, Pikesville, Paul Justin, Environmental Politics
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Bush, Md. lawmakers attend groundbreaking for new Walter Reed
Sun reporterPresident Bush turned a spade of dirt today to ceremonially launch a major expansion of the nation's premier Naval hospital in Bethesda. Bush said he hoped the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center "will be the site of many miracles of healing....Tags: Medical Services, George Bush, Armed Forces, Executive Branch, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland)
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BRAC needs worry officials
Sun reporterWhen President Bush breaks ground today for a new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, Phil Alperson may be thinking about how Route 355 is going to handle the thousands of additional staff, patients and visitors the hospital is...Tags: Medical Services, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Building Material, Hospitals and Clinics, Vehicles
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Anne Arundel Datebook
Today Maritime concert The Annapolis Maritime Museum will hold its Summertime Maritime Concert at 7 p.m. today on the museum campus, 400 Second St., and at noon tomorrow at City Dock. The Ocean Quartet will perform today, and Caryl Weiss will perform...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation, Defense, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, American Revolutionary War, Bodies of Water
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Pentagon's obstinacy
Refusing to clean up a hazardous waste site despite orders from the Environmental Protection Agency is both contemptible and arrogant. It's also against the law. But that hasn't persuaded the U.S. Department of Defense to follow through on its cleanup...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Armed Forces, Environmental Cleanup, Defense, Environmental Politics
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County to resume at-risk water tests
As a federal dispute intensifies over the cleanup of contaminated drinking water at Fort Meade, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold announced yesterday that the county will resume its efforts to test at-risk homes in the area. Leopold also sent...Tags: Defense, John R Leopold, Benjamin L. Cardin, Environmental Politics, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Pentagon, EPA at odds
The SwampBy Josh Mitchell and wire reports The Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped....Tags: Defense, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Pentagon, EPA at odds
Sun reporterThe Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped into soil and groundwater. The...Tags: Defense, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Politics, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Pentagon, EPA in stalemate
Sun reporterThe Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped into soil and groundwater. The...Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Defense, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Environmental Politics, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Two people die in weekend crashes
Two people were killed in traffic accidents in Anne Arundel County over the weekend - one in a single-car crash in Arnold and one in Laurel involving a suspected drunken driver, county police said yesterday. About noon Saturday in Arnold, Kevin Shawn...Tags: Death and Dying, Road Accidents, Vehicles
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