HAFB: 24,621 jobs keeping Utah citizens off the federal welfare rolls
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| Blowing Up the Utah Desert |
Informative
"hot off the press story" of local interest this morning via the
Salt Lake Tribune, asking and then answering the question,
"Why is there a Hill Air Force Base?" One helpful
Trib reader volunteers an answer too,
"Why? Because it turns out-Utah is a Pretty Great State -to bomb. They can practice bombing by blowing up sections of Utah." The fact that
HAFB is a short flight from the desert
Utah Test and Training Range west of the
Great Salt Lake, is part of the answer of course; but check out
Trib reporter Tom Wharton's morning writeup for the full skinny:
Mr. Wharton reports that
"[t]he fact that the Great Depression left 20 percent of Utah’s population receiving federal relief showed a need for a project to put people to work;" and that the project had the support of the
"Ogden Chamber of Commerce, which even acquired 3,000 acres for the possible base...".
Bet'cha you didn't know that.
