Our goal with (the buffer) is to ensure that we are able to fully use the land we have for training within our existing boundaries,

It's entirely the location. There's nothing out there. It's a Marine base on one side, and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land on the other.

"You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.