More than 14,000 acres of expansive coastal lands that served as training grounds for generations of soldiers were declared a national monument Friday. Fort Ord, a former military base just north of Monterey, will be the country's newest national monument and the second that President Obama has created under the 1906 Antiquities Act.
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