In the event we ever have a large scale mobilization we'll need US facilities. We should be very careful not to reduce their number beyond the point necessary to support such an increase in troops and training facilities.
You might remember McClellan. That was one of the bases "closed" under the last BRAC, but Clinton illegally overruled BRAC and kept it open. Then he "privatized" it.
The vote in the Senate shows definitively why we have to have an independent BRAC. Politicians don't really give a $hit about efficiency. They are interested in votes, even if they have to buy them by resisting the closure of a base in their district. In my opinion they should be scorned and thrown out - regardless of their party.
Every dime that we spend on an unneeded base takes away from real, needed defense.
And we are such wussies we can't even declare war after the worst attack in American history. Really sad.
Why did the Twin Towers Fall? Ask not this question, ask why pork barrel defense appropriators closed Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn as an Air Force base years ago, but kept bases open in such crucial Homeland defense areas as the rural south and west.
Most military bases are like Farm subsidies and corporate handouts - Republican welfare payments.
Liberal protestors came out en masse to Vieques. They argued that America was racist for bombing an island populated by Latins, and for picking an area that had little democratic representation.
I have a better idea. Let's move those bombing exercises to an island that is populated by elitist whites that have more than their fair share of democratic representation.
Let's send the Navy to Martha's Vineyard.
Ahhh,yes. Of course. Spoken like the true weasel and scum-sucking human turd you really are. You are really outdoing yourself in your ass-kissing and backstabbing efforts to become a bureaucrat,ain't ya,Baby Hughie?
BTW,I think these base closings are a EXCELLENT idea! The land will always be available and cheap if we need it again,ESPECIALLY the land near the ocean on the east coast. I think we should close ALL US Navy bases except for the one at Norfolk,Va,and park every single ship the US Navy has there side by side. If we don't have room for them all,we should just decomission the ones we don't have room for and cut them up for scrap. Look at all the money we can save by having them all in one place!
While we are at it,why not have just one army base and one AF base? After all,they are just a drag on the taxpayers that prevents us from spending the money we need to spend on the "chil-run". It's not like we will ever need them again,or anything.Besides,with only one base each for the army,navy,af,and marines,just look at how easy they will be to defend! (sarcasm)
This initiative does nothing more than 'trim the fat' and get rid of a lot of redundant jobs taking care of the facilities ... keeping an unneeded or redundant facility open only means that politicans are wasting my money to keep some colleague happy ... pork barrell politics in the 60s through 80s created a ridiculous number of military facilities that have no real purpose other than to bring jobs to a congressional district as a political payoff.
Each of them will go to their grave with this indelible mark on their character, and they care not, as they are aligned with the every decadence imaginable.
The vast majority in the Congress of the United States are the greatest evil doers in America, and the world.
In it's silence the overwhelming majority of American Citizens blindly condone the rape of our God given rights by a treacherous and traitorous government, while giving our quite approval of, and financially underwriting of a world-wide campaign of pain and suffering to erect a world government that neither respects God or the fundamental bedrock of all societies - the family.
We must bear in mind the government is a mirror reflection of the will of the people who put it in place.
Where the heck do they plan to house and train our military? I hope they know what they are doing.