No one ever said anything about closing bases. Your reaching tells me you have no ammo in your magazines.
Military training does not belong in our cities. There are more than enough bases arounf the country that have adequate structural capabilities.
The problem is that this is a Reserve unit. Such units usually don't have the space or money to build realistic training sites for this, and can't afford to spend most of the drill weekend in transport to a post that does. Yet these marines need the training.
The reserves in Grand Rapids have a weekend a month to train. There is no base in Michigan that in any way resembles urban terrain, so to speak. Would it be logical to spend most of their training time flying to and from some military base where suitable terrain was available? Would be economical? Would it be cost-effective. It would not. Furthermore, there’s probably no one downtown in Toledo on the weekend anyway to even notice who’s there or what they are doing.
Use Google Earth: Buidings are on the edges of Camp Pendleton. Pendleton has 17 miles of Beaches, but due to strict environmental protections, they can use less than one mile. Have to protect those Least Terns, you know.
All of these are considered "Cities".
And you are demanding that training not be conducted in cities.
No one ever said anything about closing bases. Your reaching tells me you have no ammo in your magazines.