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Subject: Typo on H&K factory?
bayonetbrant    9/16/2003 5:34:46 AM
>>announced that it is building a factory in Columbus, Georgia. This plant will build weapons for military, law enforcement and civilian customers. This probably means that some of the M-8 work will be done here, as the Augusta plant is close to several large Army bases<< (my emphasis)

Columbus, GA is outside Ft. Benning, on the GA/AL state line.
Augusta in where Ft. Gordon is, on the GA/SC state line, and more centrally located to Ft. Stewart, Ft. Jackson, and even Ft. Bragg. Based on the description of the factory, I wold think that Augusta was the actual answer.

Just curious...
 
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D.E. Watters    RE:Typo on H&K factory?   9/16/2003 9:33:23 AM
Ft. Benning is home to the Infantry School, the Infantry Center, the Army Marksmanship Unit, the Army Research Institute, the 3rd ID's 3rd Brigade, and the 75th Ranger Regiment. Fort Gordon is home of the Signal Regiment (formerly Signal Corps).
 
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peach10x    RE:Typo on H&K factory?   10/15/2003 9:14:00 AM
H&K factor is coming to Columbus, GA...see article: German gunmaker breaks ground for new Georgia plant Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. - More than 100 city and business leaders were on hand as German gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch broke ground on a 75,000-square-foot plant that will pump $25 million in capital investment into the community and create up to 200 jobs. If the company is able to land a contract to supply the U.S. government its next-generation assault rifle, it would be worth as much as $1 billion over 10 to 15 years, company officials say, and more than double the job count for Columbus. The groundbreaking was Tuesday. "There's the potential for that large of a business, but the stars will have to line up," said Peter Simon, vice vice president of Sterling, Va.-based HK Inc., the U.S. operation of HK Oberndorf of Germany. The factory is locating on 29 acres in the 1,500-acre Muscogee Technology Park in northeast Columbus. The property, formerly used by soldiers training at Fort Benning, was acquired in a land swap between the city and the post in 2001. H&K should start construction early next year, Simon said. Hiring of the 200 workers is expected to begin sometime next summer, he said, with the company launching gun production in early 2005
 
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