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Article: Base realignment and closure process affecting state: Mississippi stands to lose 1,678 jobs in latest round of DoD streamlining.(United States. Department of Defense)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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Mississippi communities brace themselves for certain seasons that hold the possibility of bringing damage--hurricane season, tornado season, West Nile virus season.
Several Mississippi cities have to prepare every few years for a "season" of a different kind of damage, particularly Pascagoula, Biloxi, Meridian and Columbus.
The BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) season slammed Mississippi the middle of May, hitting Pascagoula hard, damaging Biloxi and Meridian, and leaving Columbus not only undamaged but elated (because of an increase in personnel).
In this round of base closings recommended by the Pentagon--the process started in ...