BCC was a FAT Pelosi and Feinstein payoff out here in the state of California. Pelosi and/or compatriots got their claws into the Presidio (SF) property, Treasure Island, NAS Alameda (the only deep water carrier port between Bremerton and San Diego), Mare Island etc...
In related scummery Feinsteins husband got the goodies in the giant desert “wilderness areaing” in the south, getting a mineral play worth billions as a tradoff for rights in the designated “no human fun” zones...
I knew there would be great temptation on the part of the inside crew to make some grabs after The BCC. I hoped the local folks in each case could keep a lid on it. I don’t know as much about the others but I knew the land around Mare Island was getting way heckuva valuable. Same with McClellan AFB near SAC.
At the time Mare was one of six of our NUKE capable Naval Shipyards. As was Charleston NSY and Portsmouth NSY. About 1970 I toured the Nuke yards to help standardize them on certain aspects of Submarine repair/overhaul. First the 15 year, then the lifetime reactor cores gradually made some of the yards excess. Charleston got cut and it’s taken all this time for the locals to split it up, in part for low cost housing. Portsmouth sat for awhile but the brain trust has now decided they actually need it so it’s back in service. Norfolk couldn’t handle the East Coast load
Then the same brain trust realized Puget couldn’t handle all the West Coast load but with Mare gone San Diego has picked up the slack.
Mare, I don’t know about but what with Kalifornia having the highest density of political dirtbagz on the planet all I can do is wish you good luck with that one. chinese Walmart maybe?