SS1,
Believe me. Blowing it up and starting over is what we want to do. Unfortunately the is no money allocated for "renovation" just money from the agencies tasked with "Hurricane Isabel recovery", so money is tight, very tight.
Patrick,
Its much different than it used to be. The first military work I did was in the early nineties, and we could do just about anything we wanted. Since the EPA starting investing military installations in their "superfund" sites, things have gotten much stricter. In this case, we were provided maps of all known bomb impacts and landfill activities since. What we didn't know was the depth of ordinance or its volatility. Another interesting aspect was ponds. The course sits on a very attractive marsh on a penninsula that has thousands of birds. But, I was not allowed to expand ponds for strategy or irrigation storage because of "potential bird strikes" on nearby F-16 and new F-22 aircraft from geese that might congregate there.
Just wierd stuff like that. All things the government can spend money on to investigate, study, consider, etc. But they can't spend money on having reasonable facilities for our men and women in uniform. Sad but true.
Lester