[camle]

great news for CT!

[Just another Joe]

Here we go again.
"Close the bases, shrink the military, we don't need a large military."

We went through this once after Vietnam and had to regrow the military when it became obvious that shrinking it was a bad idea.

[Coldwater Creek]

Does anyone know what the status of Cannon Air Force Base and NAS Oceana???????

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[M. Espinola]

This is great news for Conn & RI!

(file) The nuclear powered attack submarine USS Dallas(R) gets underway for a scheduled deployment from New London Submarine Base, Connecticut, April 2002. An independent commission voted to save the premier submarine base on the US east coast from closure(AFP/HO-DOD)

[Snickersnee]

OK, I admit it -- I DON'T like the prospect of driving an extra hundred miles to use the PX at West Point, so hooray for SuBase NLon. On the other hand, 12 years ago when closing it was first proposed, we had a hundred attack boats in the fleet and six bases for them. Now we have _forty_ boats in the fleet and we're still going to have six bases. Something's wrong with this picture. The squids are going to have to sacrifice something -- perhaps something valuable that we'll wish we had some day -- in order to keep lipstick on this pig. And God help us all when EPA begins to snoop around.

[SwinneySwitch]

BRAC votes to close Naval Station Ingleside, transfer jobs from NAS Corpus Christi(TEXAS)

http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4026447,00.html

[AuH2ORepublican]

Groton escaping from the Pentagon's axe saved many jobs in Connecticut, including perhaps that of Republican Congressman Rob Simmons. Along with Jim Leach's CD in Iowa, Simmons's district gave Bush his lowest 2004 percentage of any House district currently held by a Republican (44%), so Simmons doesn't have much of a margin of error in the district. But Simmons is liberal on social issues and more conservative on economic issues and foreign affairs, and works his district well, so I think he will survive once again.