Former base housing units gain new life under fed plan

Friday, February 10, 2012

by Brian S. Orban

The first of 15 homes from Mountain Home Air Force Base were transferred to the Ely-Shoshone Tribe in late December as part of Operation Walking Shield. It took workers nearly a month to disassemble the single-story units to prepare them for the move from southern Idaho to eastern Nevada.

Following a trek stretching hundreds of miles over two states, the first of 15 homes from Mountain Home Air Force Base are seeing new life through a program aimed at helping Native American tribes.

In December, the first of these modular homes left the base for the Ely-Shoshone Tribe in eastern Nevada as part of a federal program known as Operation Walking Shield.

The ongoing initiative involving a handful of military bases seeks to address chronic overcrowding and homeless situations facing those living on reservations across the western United States.

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Nice to see I'm the only one to respond to this story. Would have been much nicer to see the old relocatable s given to homeless or "almost" homeless vets but we'll keep on paying the ole reparations because of what our Government did many moons ago.................

-- Posted by Boston62 on Fri, Feb 10, 2012, at 10:50 PM
I lived for five years in one of these houses before the Gulf War conflict. I'm glad to see they are still in use somewhere.

-- Posted by Former Air Force wife on Sun, Aug 10, 2014, at 7:15 PM

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