Yesterday the talking heads acted like they understood the significance of the moves and let it go with a "the bases will be consolidated and relocated in other areas". That's really cool but (rhetorically) how are they going to relocate Groton to Kansas?
I always thought that our subs pretty much got what they wanted/needed when they wanted/needed it.
I was stationed at Groton for 3 years. It is a major sub-training location. Honestly, I don't see how they could move it. Granted, all the sub training is don on-shore, but Kansas seems like a stretch. There are other facilities along both coasts that could take the slack, though.
Trying to figure out why government does what it does sometimes can lead to insanity, IMO. ;)