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Article: Military ushers in $5b spending spree.(SDBJ INSIDER)(Conference news)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- April 20, 2009
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We're not just a Navy town, after all! Adm. Len Hering, who commands Navy Region Southwest here, tells a KPBS FM audience April 13 that the military is spending close to $5 billion to upgrade and expand facilities countywide. That's a huge chunk of change, as they used to say. He also says San Diego boasts the largest concentration of warships and support vessels in the world, thanks to the importance of our critical geopolitical location on the Pacific Ocean. The SDBJ Insider joined Adm. Hering on the "These Days" program to talk about the local economic impact of so much spending firepower ... By the way, in case you haven't read, San Diego's sailors played an important ...