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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
THANK YOU for the education.

Hell, we had a LOT more real bases back in the olden days....

138 posted on 08/30/2010 8:54:30 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner
You are quite welcome. My husband was career Army and several of the places he was stationed no longer exist.

Frankly the clustered bases and Mega-bases worry both of us. While they may be more economical I don't think the security risk is worth it.

When Fort Ord was shut down in 1994 we lost the only ocean based training location for the US Army. There are other ocean based facilities but they are overbooked to say the least. Oh and the land is now a Superfund site, all those nasty lead bullets and UXOs you know. They just recently took 100 million from the US Army budget for that cleanup. But hey, the Smith Blue Butterfly now has a nature preserve. You just can't put a price on a trade like that.

139 posted on 08/30/2010 9:30:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (there are huge chunks of time...at night...where I'm just asleep...for hours...it's ridiculous....)
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