Posted on 02/23/2016 9:47:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
A controversial plan to move a U.S. Marine Corps base within Okinawa in southern Japan has been pushed back by two years, America's top military official in the Pacific said.
Adm. Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, said Tuesday that the shift of the Futenma air station to a less congested part of Okinawa island would not happen until 2025 because work on a new facility has been delayed.
"It's slowed," he told a congressional committee in Washington. "It's a little over two years late. ... Now we're looking at 2025 before that's done."
The project faces stiff opposition from both protesters and the Okinawan prefectural government. ...
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Sounds like the Japanese are a little worried.
Obama finds closing Gitmo more important!
this is insanity. Moving bases is so difficult, what will happen in a real war?
Tell the moe’s in Okinawa the story of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
The good folk there bitched about a U.S> Military bombing area there.
So after just so much crap the U.S> shut down the military installation. Thus Vieques lost their largest employer.
Let em eat dirt.
Same for Okinawa. The good Japs there bitch enough, move the base to north New Mexico and let em eat dirt.
BC Street would become a ghost town without Yankee dollars.
Those who have been there [Okinawa] will know what I say to be true.
Major road goes right down the middle of Futenma's golf course. This area is insanely dense - the north is nearly vacant, and the Marine Corps has an extensive training facility in the north.
I think with Red China's saber-rattling, Japan is a little more at ease with our presence.
You’d still have Kadena and a couple grunt bases to the north providing some business but I hear ya.
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