Frankly only people with little to no understanding or appreciation of what our military is all about make these absurd comments and ask these ridiculous questions.
These people don’t even realize that our military bases OFTEN serve as staging errors in times of PEACETIME disasters...so if there’s another devastating earthquake in Japan, Kadena will serve as a platform to airlift supplies and medicine from ALL OVER the world.
If our own naval personnel get sick, they’re aeromedically evacuated to places just like Kadena to get more definitive treatment.
Civilians all over the world are often transported by our military to civilian facilites all over for treatment.
And that’s just a few examples!
These are usally the exact same people that whine about us not coming to the aid of people all over the globe QUICKLY enough when disaster strikes, militarily or civilian.
And the economc excuses are moot. It would be DISASTROUSLY more expensive to pull our bases out from all over the world.
For multiple reaons.
Expensive maintaining an empire.