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Housing concerns about lead paint, mold and timeliness of repairs were raised before Sounia became the garrison commander. Sounia said there’s also an agreement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation to rehabilitate the installation’s roads for 60 cents to each dollar that it would normally cost Fort Bragg to do the work.Īnd the Department of Transportation is working to apply for an infrastructure grant that, if approved, could mean a $24 million project to reconstruct range roads on Fort Bragg that would be turned over to the Department of Transportation to maintain. This year, a new access control point at Reilly Road is expected to open by April, and another access control point at Canopy Lane is expected to open by the summer. In November, a 7-mile stretch of a portion of the Fayetteville Outer Loop that connects to Fort Bragg opened. Sounia said repairs are needed for the dams, and development on the beachfront areas will start shortly, with the area expected to open by August. In September, ground broke for a future $4.3 million outdoor recreation center at Smith Lake. But it shows the depth that we have here across the post.”Įxercises weren’t the only focus for the garrison’s leaders. “We alerted about 9, and by 11 o’clock, we already had all the forces rallied on post … No one else in the world can do that - not like that, not on a holiday when no one’s here. “That’s the largest deployment on a rapid notice that the U.S. He said those who helped get the 82nd Airborne Division’s soldiers “out the door” when the Department of Defense called upon them to deploy on a short notice to the Middle East at the beginning of this year are an example. “I think our preparation is pretty phenomenal,” he said.Īnd Sounia said it’s exercises like preparing for emergency readiness or an energy ready assessment exercise late last spring that help prepare when soldiers are called upon. Sounia said partner agencies on and off Fort Bragg, which included law enforcement and the FBI, were involved. He praised the reaction time response and a special reaction team for isolating the area, getting “hostages” out and maintaining communication. Sounia said only about five people knew the exercise wasn’t real as it was happening.