Wow. How cool.
Will they be able to posess actual, real guns???? It's a shame what's happening to so great a country as Australia!
Tindal RAAF base would benefit greatly from the influx of US forces, and, dare I say it, cash.
And I'd sleep safer knowing that if the Islamics in Indonesia suddenly rose up as one against "the Australian infidels", we'd have more than a few Hornets up north to defend us.
Party Time!!
Strategy shift.
The military bases we now have are constantly labored with silly restrictions and threatened with closure. The only thing that saves some of them is they are already there and have been for years. However, they aren't expanding any nor are new ones being built for today's changing needs. It would take many years and untold dollars to jump through all the environmental impact statements and comply with all the laws required, if that would even be possible, which it probably wouldn't.
Intensive and realistic military training requires a lot of room and flexibility. We no longer have that despite the fact we have lots of land and potential places. So, we now have to go all the way around the world to seek new training possibilities.
It will cost a ton of unneccessary money to send our troops 12,000 miles for a few weeks of good training, but that is peanuts compared to the prohibitive costs and time of establishing a new military training center in, say, Oregon or Nevada - despite the fact the Federal Government already owns the huge tracts of land and airspace. They just can't do anything with it except protect it (unless, of course, one is talking about the ongoing depredations of illegal aliens despoiling it).
Ping to China.
It's like WWII all over again - we got to keep the LOCs from the US to Australia flowing & safe.
BTTT