Soccer Field Will Remain After Military Exercises
Land now being used for a military exercise soon will be a place for some plain old exercise.
A mock operation in suburban Fairview Township is giving soldiers armed with M-16 rifles and bulldozers some practice grading a landing strip under combat conditions and helping the community build a new soccer field.
Col. Clyde Hornberger, commander of the 315th Engineer Group at the New Cumberland Army Depot, said the Army exercise will continue for two weeks.
The rough grading will save the township about $150,000, but will not cost the Army extra, because the corps conducts similar two-week operations each year, said Charles Bender, chairman of the township Board of Supervisors.
Northern York County has been without a soccer field since chemical contamination from an abandoned Army landfill forced Marsh Run Park to close in 1987, Bender said.
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