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Fort Stewart controlled burns program keeps soldiers training in the woods
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An equipment operator with the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Forestry Branch extinguishes a fire at the base of a long leaf pine tree during a controlled burn, April 23 on Fort Stewart, Georgia. (Molly Cook/Fort Stewart Public Affairs Office)
FORT STEWART, Ga. For seven months a year, hundreds of acres of this pine-forest- and wetland-covered Army post burn, sending ominous plumes of smoke miles into the sky that can be seen by thousands of Coastal Georgians in nearby communities.
Fort Stewart burns at least 600 acres at a time in a process Army officials call critical for the 3rd Infantry Division and thousands of other service members who train each year on the largest military installation east of the Mississippi River. The prescribed burn program the largest such controlled burning program on a single land plot in North America, according to the Defense Department ensures soldiers