[RockBassCreek]

Existing agreements with the host nations and/or better prices for reworked buildings.

If I can refurbish a barracks as an apartment building, then I can get a far better price for it.

I think some of our union contracts in Germany require us to pay the retirements of any German workers displaced by base closures (and other such things). We'll be paying someone in Germany for a long time to come.

[caltrop]

Even so, closing our bases and bringing our troops home (all 70,000 GIs and their dependents) will save us a mountain of money.