# Project Concise

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'''Project Concise''' was a [United States Army](/source/United_States_Army) program [to close military installations](/source/Base_Realignment_and_Closure) after the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War).<!--lawsuit Supp1224--> The closures included [Nike missile](/source/Nike_missile) [launch sites](/source/List_of_Nike_missile_locations) and command posts including [Highlands Army Air Defense Site](/source/Highlands_Army_Air_Defense_Site), [Fort Lawton](/source/Fort_Lawton), [Fort MacArthur](/source/Fort_MacArthur), [Fort Hancock](/source/Fort_Hancock%2C_New_Jersey), [Charleston Army Depot](/source/Charleston_Army_Depot), [Fort Wolters](/source/Fort_Wolters), and [Valley Forge General Hospital](/source/Valley_Forge_General_Hospital). Additionally, [Hunter Army Airfield](/source/Hunter_Army_Airfield) was reactivated in order to accommodate the expected increase in traffic at [Fort Stewart](/source/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<!--lawsuit Supp1224--> 1972-autumn 1973 study that identified numerous posts which were instead retained (e.g., [Fort McClellan](/source/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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