Chet Edwards For Congress

July 11, 2005
Edwards Calls For Full Utilization of Fort Hood

KWTX Channel 10
By News Staff

Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, who represented Fort Hood until Congressional Districts were redrawn in 2003, urged Base Realignment and Closure Commission members Monday to “consider the common-sense approach of fully utilizing Ft. Hood,” as a regional hearing on the future of Texas military installations got underway Monday in San Antonio.

“The Department of Defense's BRAC analysis ranked Ft. Hood as having the Army's third highest military value,” Edwards said.

“Given that high rating, I hope this Commission would consider one fundamental question: ‘Wouldn't it make more sense to fully utilize the Army's only two-division installation, Ft. Hood, rather than downsizing it by 7000 soldiers, thus requiring hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent at Ft. Carson to build new facilities already at Ft. Hood?’”

May 25, 2005
Lawmakers Question Army Post Analysis

Waco Tribune Herald
From STAFF REPORTS |

U.S. Reps. Chet Edwards and John Carter on Tuesday heaped further doubt on a proposal to move troops from Fort Hood, noting that analysts omitted 37,600 acres of land newly available for training at the massive Army post.