I'm not nervous about it. I work not a stone's throw from NAS Atlanta. I have now for more that 20 years. Their mission while at times seemed barely operationally necessary, when I heard the base commander comment for the news the day they announced the BRAC base closures, and essentially say "they know what they're doing," I believed him. It didn't sound like he was trying to stay out of trouble. He sounded to me like a man finally realizing that what he should be saying instead of trying to protect his "command turf", political largesse turf, and all of the other accoutrements that come with a military base near a civilian town.
One helluva big pot of money gets wasted trying to keep the appetites of Congressmen and Senators happy (coincidentally, so they can get re-elected). As a Georgian, I have somewhat mixed feelings that we had to accept the realization, I feel especially bad that Kings Bay lost to Groton Connecticut on the sub base stuff...my feeling is THAT was political....BUT , in the end, if the rational of us accept what's needed, then ALL are better served.
Politics is everything, and everything is politics.