Parris Island wages battles, not war, against climate change
Companies, agencies, institutions, etc
Defense Department
Marine Corps
Brig
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
the Union of Concerned Scientists
Pentagon
the Department of Defense
the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch
Congress
The Associated Press
the Lowcountry Council of Governments
People
Marc Blair
Julie Nethercot
Joe Biden
Brig
Stephen Cheney
William Truax
Stephanie Rossi
Groups
Marines
American
Truax
Physical locations
Parris Island
ISLAND
Lowcountry region
anywhere.”Parris Island
Places
Tyndall Air Force Base
Locations
S.C.
America
South Carolina’s
Parris Island’s
San Diego
U.S.
North Carolina’s
Camp Lejeune
Florida
Events
World War I.
Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Michael
Summary
Gen. Stephen Cheney, who served as commanding general at the base from 1999 to 2001.But Cheney doesn’t foresee any appetite in Congress for closing the base and relocating its mission to less risky ground, which means the government needs to start investing in structural solutions to protect its crucial components such as the firing ranges near the water, he said in an interview with The Associated Press.Spending millions to build seawalls would be cheaper than spending billions to rebuild the base after a devastating hurricane, Cheney reasons.Parris Island has so far been spared the direct hits that have caused billions in damage to other military installations, but it has been evacuated twice in the last five years for hurricanes, which hit South Carolina every eight years, on average.In 2018, Hurricane Florence pummeled North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune, washing away the beach used by Marines for training, destroying buildings and displacing personnel.
As said here by MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America