Pentagon Explores Additional Missile Defense Site

Air Force Magazine: The Missile Defense Agency is scheduled to host a public meeting in Carthage, N.Y., on Aug. 19 to allow local residents to voice their views on the potential basing of missile defense interceptors at nearby Fort Drum, according to a release. Language in the Fiscal 2013 defense policy act instructed the Pentagon to conduct an environmental assessment (e.g., impact on air and water quality, noise levels) of operating a Continental United States Interceptor Site, or CIS, at one of four locations in the eastern United States.

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