Ellsworth.
Housing market just bottomed out in Rapid City.
Sad, a great base, great location, great assignment.
http://www.wral.com/news/4485418/detail.html
List Of Base Closings In Alphabetical Order
POSTED: 9:34 am EDT May 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- A list obtained by The Associated Press of military facilities the Defense Department recommended for closure Friday:
Alabama:
Abbott U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuskegee
Anderson U.S. Army Reserve Center, Troy
Armed Forces Reserve Center, Mobile
BG William P. Screws U.S. Army Reserve Center, Montgomery
Fort Ganey Army National Guard Reserve Center, Mobile
Fort Hanna Army National Guard Reserve Center, Birmingham
Gary U.S. Army Reserve Center, Enterprize
Navy Recruiting District Headquarters, Montgomery
Navy Reserve Center, Tuscaloosa
The Adjutant General Bldg, AL Army National Guard, Montgomery
Wright U.S. Army Reserve Center
Alaska:
Kulis Air Guard Station
Arizona:
Air Force Research Lab, Mesa
Allen Hall Armed Forces Reserve Center, Tucson
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)
Ellsworth at its peak a triple threat base in the SAC era, Bombers, Missiles, Tankers, and Airborne Command Post. Population 10,000 plus, in 1979 when I arrived. Now down to around 4,000 with new facilities for almost everything including a base operations and ATC building not yet under construction, new housing, new BX and commissary, Headquarters building, engine test facility, fire station, etc etc etc. All that means the doors could be closed yesterday.
John Thune is sure to take tremendous heat for having beaten Ellsworth's only hope of remainging open. Tommy Two Tongues Daschle. An untruth of the first order, but nevertheless a real issue for repbublican haters. Hopefully I will have an opportunity next saturday evening to congratulate Senator Thune on his election to the Senate, and contribute to his next campaign at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner. Maybe I will be contributing to the closure by removing sone of the satellite systems that I now maintain.
Ellsworth AFB just outside Rapid City, SD. Base for B1-B bombers (used to have missles). This will really hurt Rapid City and western SD.
I am sure we will hear "This would never have happened if we had re-elected Senator Daschle!"