Mr Packard's recently signed bill resuscitates the navy's project by allowing the navy to obtain clean sand from anywhere, rather than just from dredging.
"We've been busy, " concurs Bill Mathews , a former Navy SEAL and executive vice president at Blackwater , a North Carolina-based firm that offers self-defense, survival and firearms training for the U.S. government and has about 2, 000 personnel stationed throughout the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq.