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Old Army dirt airstrip back in use
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A paratrooper jumps out the back of a C-130 Hercules as it flies over the Remagen Landing Zone on Fort Stewart. - photo by Photo by Randy C. Murray
It had been more than 20 years since a C-130 Hercules has landed on Fort Stewart’s Remagen Landing Zone, but on Wednesday, the dirt strip LZ and drop zone received a lot of air traffic. The dirt runway recently was repaired and upgraded by units with the New Mexico Army and Air National Guard with help from the Georgia Air National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center in Savannah.According to Fort Stewart public-affairs spokesman Kevin Larson, the $75,000 cost for the upgrade of Remagen DZ/LZ included design, equipment, materials and supplies. Although Remagen continued to be used as a drop zone for airborne operations after the early 1990s, a change in the installation’s mission allowed it to fall into disrepair.
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