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Army undertakes expensive operation and neglects to fully plan for contingencies. Sound familiar? This time it has to do with tortoises.The L.A. Times reports today on a mess of a relocation operation at the U.S. Army base in Ft. Irwin, California. To make room for expanded combat exercises, 760 California desert tortoises were captured, fitted with radio Rolex Datejusts replica watches transmitters and airlifted by helicopter to unoccupied public lands in the Mojave Desert. The move, costing $8.7 million, was part of an appeasement to environmentalists after Congress approved Ft.

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