Round 5 may mean more base closures

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Round 5 may mean more base closures

Pentagon: Chance to reshape defense

By Otto Kreisher
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

November 22, 2004

WASHINGTON – With the last obstacle to another round of base realignment and closure apparently removed, the Pentagon is preparing for what it considers "the best, and perhaps the last, chance to reshape defense for decades," according to an official deeply involved in the process.

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The 1988 law that authorized the process expired after the fourth round in 1995. Since then, Congress has blocked repeated administration efforts to renew the law, which cut through a wall of restrictions that had stopped all major changes to bases for a decade.

Most of the California delegation opposed another round of base closings because the state was hit hard in the four previous rounds. For example, San Diego County lost the Naval Training Center and several research facilities and saw Miramar Naval Air Station transferred to the Marine Corps.

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During the presidential campaign, Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry said he would postpone base closure if he won. With that prospect gone, the Pentagon is working in secret to produce the list of recommended closures and realignments that Rumsfeld must submit by May 16.

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[wolfgirl]

1. who needs bases...

all our troops will be on foreign soil fighting anyway...

(gag!)!

[davsand]

2. Base closures are a huge burden on communities.

Here in our county we lost an Air Force base several years ago. To date, many of the buildings are falling into decay because they can't be renovated (due to the cost of asbestos removal.) Additionally, there are huge tracts of land there that are contaminated with hazardous materials that have not been cleaned up by the federal government.

The federal government won't deed the land over to the city--they simply gave them a 90 year LEASE so they can "re-claim" the lands if the military feels it needful at any point in time. Every lease on that property is signed with a clause that you can be moved out if the feds want it...

The city has been faced with a huge burden already, and if the feds want to just bail on the responsibility to clean up the mess they can do it--leaving the mess to the locals.

Property values have plummeted and the property taxes have gone thru the roof just to replace the revenue lost from that base.

I have only begun to talk about how awful it is for any area that has a base closure...

Laura

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. 14 shining new bases in Iraq.

Why don't we close those?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. And in the south...

One of the ways that the repukes campaigned against Kerry was to spread the rumor that he was gonna close bases.

No shame, those fuckers. No shame at all.

[DulceDecorum]

5. Sin verguenza

is a word which means without orlacking in shame.

A sinverguenza pretty much means a person described above.
Now, lets see YOU use it in a sentence.