Project Concise

'''Project Concise''' was a United States Army program to close military installations after the Vietnam War. The closures included Nike missile launch sites and command posts including Highlands Army Air Defense Site, Fort Lawton, Fort MacArthur, Fort Hancock, Charleston Army Depot, Fort Wolters, and Valley Forge General Hospital. Additionally, Hunter Army Airfield was reactivated in order to accommodate the expected increase in traffic at Fort Stewart and Fort Hunter.<ref name=IX>{{Cite book |year=1978 |chapter=Chapter IX Logistics |chapter-url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1974/ch09.htm |title=Department of the Army Historical Summary: Fiscal Year 1974 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1974/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110030738/http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1974/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |publisher=Center of Military History |access-date=2011-11-13}}</ref>

The project commenced with a May 1972-autumn 1973 study that identified numerous posts which were instead retained (e.g., Fort McClellan,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c5L8qTgsLnUC&pg=PA221 It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf - Norman Schwarzkopf - Google Boeken]. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.</ref> instead closed in 1999), and the closures were announced on November 22, 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://174.123.24.242/leagle/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19761637413FSupp1224_11461.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 |title=NATIONAL Ass'n OF GOVERNMENT EMP. V. RUMSFELD - May 14, 1976 |access-date= 2011-11-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404041439/http://174.123.24.242/leagle/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19761637413FSupp1224_11461.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 |archive-date=2012-04-04 }}</ref> A follow-up program of realignments was announced in 1976.<ref name=1976chapter7>{{Cite book |chapter=Chapter VII Organization and Management |chapter-url= http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1976/ch07.htm |title=Department of the Army Historical Summary: Fiscal Year 1976 |url= https://history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1976/index.htm#Contents |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071214152208/http://www.history.army.mil/books/DAHSUM/1976/index.htm#Contents |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 14, 2007 | year=1977 |publisher=Center of Military History |access-date=2011-11-13}}</ref>

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