He is also one of the highest-ranking members of the House Armed Services Committee. In South Jersey we have both an active military presence and diverse, sensitive environmental areas including wetlands, pinelands and ocean areas.
Cooperation is vital in clean-up projects involving U.S. military and New Jersey agencies.
It involves coordination of planning, funding, restoration, engineering controls, permits, dispute resolution and other matters. Fort Dix is leaner and greener and cleaner, and that is the direction we want to go in. Much of today's agreement is the kind of relationship Fort Dix has forged with state and federal agencies on its own. Saxton noted that the hi-tech training at Fort Dix, now a Reserve training post, often uses combat simulators instead of live rounds for training. The lead is then recycled and sold.