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with water cresting along the camp anywhere from 5 to 7 feet (well above the flood-control doors), forcing extensive repairs to nearly every area of the camp. Any scheduled training that could still be conducted was moved to alternate locations, with many training events being cancelled. The only buildings on camp to escape significant damage were those built on stilts in 1997. Currently, Nebraska military representatives would like to expand that plan to so that any replacement buildings would also be raised on stilts.
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100:(DOD) identification are allowed to enter. Camp Ashland has remained a primary training site for the Nebraska National Guard throughout its history, and has also been used by other branches of the active United States military, other state National Guard units, and for military joint force training exercises with units from other countries. The camp has been used by many other groups, such as the
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itself broke through the protective levee on the east and northeast side, bringing an even larger flood of water along with debris, sand, and mud across the camp. In all, 51 of the 62 buildings in the camp were heavily damaged or destroyed. It was the worst disaster in the camp's 100-year history,
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