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Fort Carson could lose two-thirds of its 24,000 soldiers by 2020 under a doomsday plan to deal with budget cuts.
Characterized as a worst-case scenario, as many as 16,000 of the post’s soldiers would be eliminated, according to documents released Thursday by the Pentagon.
The numbers were released as part of a required environmental assessment of troop reductions, which reflect cuts of 70,000 soldiers Army-wide.
The Army says the cut would leave Fort Carson with 9,700 soldiers and civilian workers and take nearly $1 billion per year from the Pikes Peak region economy while dropping the regional population by 40,000.
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