Posted on 08/28/2005 9:12:59 PM PDT by BitDrifter
WASHINGTON and BRUNSWICK, Maine — Almost as far back as Don Russell can recall, planes from the nearby naval air station have roared overhead, an audible assurance of security, especially since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Some wonder whether the military, by leaving so many places where it has long been a part of the community, is setting itself up to become too remote from the very people it is charged with protecting. This changes the calculus on everything from defense budgets to recruiting and retention.
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It won't sap any support from the military. What it will sap is support of the government tit that people have gotten used to suckling on. It's the cold hard truth. If anyone gets mad at the military for moving out, they didn't have real support for the military in the first place.
I think what the article was trying to suggest was that if people are not exposed to the Military, that recruitment could drop.
People have a tendancy to do things that people around them do or do things that they are exposed to regularly. If there is an occupation that is dominant in a town, others tend to follow suit.
Sure , closing the military bases will sap our strength, but this is what is intended. The closing of bases, the reduction of military airplanes and ships etc, is all written up in the US Treaty for Disarmament, preparing us to enter in to the One World Government. Go read it.
Listen, I like a good conspiracy as much as the next fella, but I think you are wrong in this case.
From what I have seen, the BRAC commission did a pretty good job of consolidatng like functions (creating a fires center that consolidates air defense and field artillery training and doctrine, consolidating maneuver functions, consolidating logistical and quartermaster functions) without losing capability.
Fort Monroe is slated to close; it has become strictly an admin post, as it has no maneuver or training facilities, and contains only admin and headquarters functions anyway; it is better suited as a national park. But the functions were not eliminated, merely moved, and most of them were moved to Fort Eustis, which is a mere twenty miles away. A solid recommendation.
The local Brunswick rag, the Times Record, is so left wing it drowns out the sound of the P3s. Hold a rally with 200 people supporting the war and nothing in the paper. Hold one with 3 opposed and front page news.
BTW. The anti-war group can be counted on to protest everything that was protested back in the 60s. They look like the hippy branch of the AARP.
The right stuff is being phased as out as duplicative. Pretty soon, there won't be any more large groups of people with the right stuff.
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