Base Closure List

Various | 13 May 05 | Self

[SLB]

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

[KC_Conspirator]

Your tag line is hilarious.

All thse closings, but we have 1 billion a year for health care for illegal aliens.

Maybe Terry Schiavo is in a better place than to see her local base being closed and thus decimating the her community. (Thats a little Friday black humor for you)

[spectre]

Like Lieberman didn't have a "clue" this was going to happen? sarcasm off

[Howlin]

SGT Libby U.S. Army Reserve Center,
New Haven

Close (14) (7) 0 0 (14) (7) 0 (21)

Submarine Base New London Close (7,096) (952) 0 0 (7,096) (952) (412) (8,460)

Turner U.S. Army Reserve Center,
Fairfield
Close (13) (4) 0 0 (13) (4) 0 (17)

U.S. Army Reserve Center Area
Maintenance Support Facility
Middletown
Close (13) (5) 0 0 (13) (5) 0 (18)

Bradley International Airport Air Guard
Station
Realign

[Howlin]

Heh. :-) Congratulations. You got both of them in there!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Well they will be scratching their heads over that one then, since 5 years ago the liberals were crying that Bush was going to increase the size and scope of the military beyond reason.

[CharlieOK1]

My building is right next to the Tulsa ANG facility. Nothing like hearing an F-16 take off when you aren't expecting it!

[JesseJane]

So true. But not me. Born on a B52, okay, on base, and I love the sound. So much, I live in a flight zone to this day. Anyone that complains about the noise, family included, get the hairy eyeball and told.. hey, they are protecting your mouth right now. They usually shut up.

[Howlin]

Walter Reed is being realigned, whatever that means.

[camle]

i seem to remember th navy trying something liek that with eb and newport news. nn had never deon a new class of subs from ground zero. eb had to do major redesigns for them. eb does a better job of building boats, but united nuclear built better reactor cores than babcock and wilcox (can you say TMI?) quality didnt' save them.

[Howlin]

Press conference on NOW!

[PhiKapMom]

Sounds like P-3 squadrons to me as well -- my daughter and son-in-law are assigned to the squadrons. Lack of hangar space to work on the planes in winter could have impacted.

[CedarDave]

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)

WalMart the largest?

(/sarcasm)

[Miss Marple]

Cross service backgrounds of people is a first.

[marmar]

LOL..........what is a hairy eyeball anyway????? I have loaded weapons on 3 different A/C my favorite is the A10.

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!! I can imagine!

[Howlin]

Total net savings, 65 billion dollars.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

For cubicle bound:

recommending 33 closures, realign 29 more, closure or realign 775 smaller ones. Savings over 20 yrs just over 49 billion dollars, net savings just under 65 billion.

[PhiKapMom]

Reserve forces are being realilgned to active AFB's.

[CDHart]

Groton, Connecticut, is a submarine base. Electric Boat Div. of General Dynamics is in Groton and they build and have built many of the nuclear subs. That area will be hurting if it's closed, I know. Portsmouth is the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Portsmouth, VA.

Carolyn

[Arrowhead1952]

during the cold war our military was east coast and northern border weighted now in a post cold war world it has to be spread out evenly across the country it has nothing to do with the way that they vote or who is the senior senator give me a break

???

Did you mean that reply to someone else??

I just wanted to let some of the FReepers on my Canteen ping list see the list.