Base Closure List

Various | 13 May 05 | Self

[SLB]

Sa far Ft Monmouth, NJ; Grotton, CT, Portsmouth Navy, Brunswick Navy and Ellsworth, SD.

[Mogger]

Groton is famous for the Electric Boat Company (I think that's the name), submarines manufactured there (at one point, maybe now, too).

The last one, just christened, was cursed with the name Jimmy Carter.

It's a hunter killer sub of all things. God save its crew with that name on it.

[GraniteStateConservative]

We'd be happy to just keep our taxes here in the state instead of sending them to Red States who apparently need our money. Red States would be living in holes in the ground if not for us Blue Staters. We get punished enough for having an idiot Governor, but every person we've sent to DC votes for the GOP in leadership elections. Everything else is gravy.

[demlosers]

Texas:

Army National Guard Reserve Center No. 2, Dallas
Army National Guard Reserve Center (Hondo Pass), El Paso
Army National Guard Reserve Center, California Crossing
Army National Guard Reserve Center, Ellington
Army National Guard Reserve Center, Lufkin
Army National Guard Reserve Center, Marshall
Army National Guard Reserve Center, New Braunfels
Brooks City Base
Defense Finance and Accounting Service, San Antonio
Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant
Naval Station, Ingleside
Navy Reserve Center, Lubbock
Navy Reserve Center, Orange
Red River Army Depot
U.S. Army Reserve Center No. 2, Houston

Utah:

Deseret Chemical Depot

Virginia:

Fort Moore

Washington:

1LT Richard H. Walker U.S. Army Reserve Center
Army National Guard Reserve Center, Everett
Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Tacoma
U.S. Army Reserve Center, Fort Lawton
Vancouver Barracks

West Virginia:

Bias U.S. Army Reserve Center, Huntington
Fairmont U.S. Army Reserve Center
Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Moundsville

Wisconsin:

Gen. Mitchell International Airport ARS
Navy Reserve Center, La Crosse
Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center, Madison
Olson U.S. Army Reserve Center, Madison
U.S. Army Reserve Center, O'Connell

Wyoming:

Army Aviation Support Facility, Cheyenne
Army National Guard Reserve Center, Thermopolis

[BluH2o]

The Associated Press has learned the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton is on the Pentagon's list of proposed base closures.

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) is getting it up the "Old Wazoo" big time.

[Howlin]

District of Columbia

Leased Space - DC Close/Realign

Bolling Air Force Base Realign

Naval District Washington Realign

Potomac Annex Realign

Walter Reed Army Medical Center Realign

[gridlock]

Would it kill people to have the Y-Axis of a graph end at zero? I hate stupid manipulative graphs like this.

Military spending as a percentage of total outlays is meaningless over time when the total outlays have increased by a factor of 10 (at least).

[camle]

i spent five years at eb. newport news can also build subs and they also build surface ships. all it would take would be another naval decision to go single-source like they did with reactor cores. if given the choice between eb and nn, they'll pick nn because nn has better representation on the seapower subcommittee.

we got hit back then, too. United Nuclear. now the Mohegan Sun casino - i kidd you not.

[HRoarke]

Aren't most reserve units on active duty bases? Maybe just trimming the fat there...

[B4Ranch]

http://www.manews.org/

Of the 192 countries in the world, the United States currently has military units stationed in 135 of them. The following list is taken from the U. S. Department of Defense, "Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country":

[jettester]

I hate to tell you this but the same thing happened to Long Beach before it got the axe. I am not saying that this base you are talking about will for sure get it, but don't be too surprised that "recent expansions and improvements" doesn't mean diddly when put on these closure lists.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Ellsworth is the second largest employeer in South Dakota. This will hurt big time.

I guess we won't be getting that new Wal Mart now. (sarc)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks.

[kitkat]

Niagara Falls Air Force base is on the list to close. The local economy is very bad as it is. What's shocking is that N.F. is across the river from the Canadian border. One local resident suggested that it should be used as a command center to fight terroism. It will be interesting to see what our state senator, Hitlery, does about this. If she does, it will be the first help she's ever given this area.

[slightlyovertaxed]

If liberalism is a mental disorder, and NYC is a hotbed of liberalism, why does anyone care about 9/11? They deserved it. We should have handed Osama a medal...or only be mad at him because we didn't get a chance to do it first, right? </sarcasm>

It's odd to me, as an outsider, that you would endanger the lives of liberals and conservatives alike in the NE because of the way the averages worked out. Look at the numbers: some states were split nearly 50/50 on the votes. The communities who will be punished will not be those near the bases. The closest base to Boston is Hanscom, I believe, and that's staying open in very liberal Concord/Lexington. The bases that are closing are in the more rural, more conservative areas. You mean to tell me that a bunch of liberals are going to change the way they vote because a bunch of people they don't care about are suddenly negatively impacted? The punishment is being meted out to the wrong groups.

And remember, the next time a terrorist hits the northeast and kills a lot of people...you're going to have to clean it up if they don't have the resources...unless the good thing to do is let people suffer. I'm not sure what to expect from you all. It ranges from Christian to vitriolic hate in a few posts.

[HRoarke]

Exactly. Try and buy a house in NE vs Alabama. Makes sense to get out of cramped, expensive areas.

[camle]

i would have thought that you would want coverage across the entire country and not centralize in the event someone took a nuke. eggs all in one basket kinda thing.

but hey! i've been wrong before.. maybe... i think...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Dang. Friend from ERAU just got a job as a Navy contractor up there. I wonder if she'll get laid off.

[Miss Marple]

Lieberman just came out and called the Pentagon's decision "irrational and irresponsible." Well, this will certainly make the Senate even more fractious!

[B4Ranch]

Sorry, but that is something to ask DOD, not me.

[Arrowhead1952]

Base closing list.