Nation IN BRIEF : NORTH CAROLINA : Alert Warned of Crowded Air Bases
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 1993 congressional study warned against concentrating aircraft squadrons at the Air Force base where two planes collided in flight and killed 23 soldiers on the ground. The study by the General Accounting Office cautioned against basing many squadrons of different planes at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, N.C., and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Since the end of the Cold War, Pope has been quietly transformed into one of the nation’s two special strike force wings. The other is at Mountain Home.
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