[konaice]

The Alaska total direct loss would be 4,624 military and 824 civilian jobs. Alaska facilities would gain 397 military and 233 civilian jobs, for a net job loss of 4,818, including 4,227 military jobs and 591 civilian jobs.

In proportion to the size of Alaska's population and Economy, this is one of the biggest hit of any state in the Union.

While Stevens is making the usual and expected noises, he's not on much better ground than congresscritters from any other State, with the exception of One "Little" Fact: Alaska is going to be on the Front Lines of the next conflict (with N.Korea), and those Airbases will be primary assets (as well as prime targets). In fact Alaska is the only state in an vulnerable position in the entire country unless Castro gets missiles again.

This sort of reminds me of the Time Magazine article recommending disbanding the Marine corp just before Gulf One.

[moog]

I'm not really for any base closures right now. It seems we have forgotten we are in a WAR.