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Deep in the heart

Strategy Page reports on a potentially disturbing development:

"The heavy equipment for the troops at Ft Hood moves by rail to Houston and Beaumont, where they are loaded on ships for movement overseas. The tracks cross numerous little gullies and creeks. For the most part the viaducts across these obstacles are made of creosote-treated wood. And there’s absolutely no security. In one night a half dozen guys with some trucks and matches could do enough damage to hold up the movement, of half a dozen brigades (III Corps), for weeks."

Let’s hope someone is doing something about this. Alerting the sheriffs in the affected counties would be a good start.