LI to get big National Guard, Reserve center

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Monday, June 04, 2007
FARMINGDALE, Long Island (AP) One of the nation's largest facilities for National Guard and Reserve forces is being planned for Long Island. Federal and state officials say it will boost the area's preparedness for natural disasters and other potential threats.
Congressman Steve Israel says the 86 (m) million dollar Farmingdale Armed Forces Reserve Center would consolidate more than 12-hundred military personnel. And he says it would smooth communication among Army, Navy, Marine and Air Reserve units.
Israel is set to detail the plan in a formal announcement later today.
Military officials agree the Farmingdale center could help enhance responses to such disasters as major storms. The facility could be completed by 2010.




Does anyony know where there doing this???
 

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Maybe I'm off the path here but I'm not sure why they are needed. Anyone have specifics as to when they were deployed on Long Island?
 

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Pissing money away for votes...Look what I did for YOU!

dave3825 said:
Wow not one reply
You want a reply? How about this one....

I hope you people on Long Island see through this as a crass political ploy on the part of Congressman Israel. He now can boast that he brought the bacon back to his district....$86 Mil in construction funds (an the related temporary jobs)...1,200 permanent military jobs...all for a facility to "boost the area's preparedness for natural disasters and other potential threats." With what manpower? Of the 1,200 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines claimed how many will actually be available? Isn't the media telling us that Guard and Reserve manpower is streched thin due to the on-going deployments overseas for the Global War on Terror?

"Military officials agree the Farmingdale center could help enhance responses to such disasters as major storms" I think those officials are being kind in their assesment. When someone is throwing money at you would you want to be the one not agreeing? As a taxpayer I very skeptical as to the need for this facility as the reasons presented for it - so far (perhaps better ones were laid out at the "formal annoucement," but I doubt it) - have been weak.

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SCANdal

My original question was

"Does anyone know where there doing this???"

I live in Farmingdale and am curious as to the location it being built on..

That is why I posted it.. I did not post it to start a politics war with people .
 

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Armed Forces Reserve Center Farmingdale, NY

Armed Forces Reserve Center | 25 Baiting Place Road, Farmingdale, New York, 11735

This facility will jointly house Reserve Component elements of the National Guard, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve.

The new Armed Forces Reserve Center in Farmingdale will house some 1,000 troops, administration and support elements of the New York Army National Guard, U.S. Army Reserve, Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve when complete later this year.

The facility, with more than 225,000 square feet, will sustain some 150 military vehicles and include a dozen maintenance bays to support equipment readiness.

The $86 million, four-story, state-of-the-art center will contain administrative offices, storage space for military equipment, classrooms, conference rooms and training areas for the maintenance and operation of military equipment.

The facility's central location on Long Island was developed to better serve the reservists from all over the island while giving the New York Army National Guard an advantage in local response.

As part of the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Committee (BRAC), the new center will consolidate New York Army National Soldiers from multiple New York State Armory sites. The realignment of National Guard forces will both save funds from maintaining numerous sites and provide today's Citizen Soldiers with modern, technological and sustainable training and administration space.

The committee recommended that the U.S. Army Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve close Reserve Centers in Uniondale and Amityville and re-locate units into the new Farmingdale site. The new facility will also absorb New York National Guard troops from Bayshore, Freeport, Huntington Station, Patchogue and Riverhead and the Field Maintenance Shop in Bayshore.

For more information about joining the New York Army National Guard.

Contact SGT Bruce Welburn
Office (516) 903 6206
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