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Exposing An Agenda:
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SOURCE: Defense Department
Nancy Brown former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Thursday March 2
Jayhawk Room KS Union
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Recommended military cuts would save almost $6 billion
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Closings of bases would end more than 1,000 jobs
States with major military base closings and realignments recommended by the Defense Department:
Proposed military base closings
The Associated Press
"If we fail to bring our infrastructure in line with our force structure and budget, we will lack the funds to maintain our readiness and modernization in years to come," Perry wrote.
In a letter yesterday to former Illinois Sen. Alan Dixon, chairman of the commission, Perry said there was "no alternative" to closing more bases.
Even with this round of closures, Perry said, the military will have more bases than it needs to maintain its force of 10 Army divisions, 11 aircraft carriers, 936 Air Force fighters and three Marine Corps divisions.
WASHINGTON — Texas, Alabama, New Mexico and Pennsylvania take the hardest hits in the Pentagon's recommendations for base closings released yesterday. Defense Secretary William Perry said the "painful process" will translate into nearly $6 billion in savings by 2011.
The Pentagon is proposing a total of 146 closings and "realignments" in the fourth and possibly final round of base closings since 1988. Of those, 16 involve closure recommendations affecting more than 1,000 jobs while six realignments would claim at least as many jobs at bases remaining open.
"This has been a painful process for the Department of Defense," Perry said at a Pentagon news conference. "It's been a painful process for the communities involved. But it is necessary."
The recommendations go to an independent Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, known by its slightly inaccurate acronym BRAC, for review and possible amendment and then must be accepted or rejected in their entirety by Congress and the president.
Perry said he may ask Congress to renew the base closure law and schedule another round within three or four years.
Asserting that politics played no role, Perry said he accepted the recommendations of each of the military services virtually unchanged.
In the months leading up to yesterday announcement, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta issued two memos ordering White House staffers not to interfere. Calls to the White House from governors and other state and local officials were forwarded to Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch, the Pentagon's No. 2 official and the lead official in developing the closure list.
"I don't know of anyone who will be able to find through any statistical technique that there is a correlation here with politics," Dutch said.
Beach Naval Shipyard, Calif.; Fitzsimons Army Medical Center; Colo.; Naval Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Indianapolis; Naval Surface Warfare Center, Louisville, Ky.; Fort Ritchie, Md.; Naval Air Station, Meridian, Miss; Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal, N.J.; Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst, N.J.; Rome Laboratories, N.Y.; and Brooks Air Force Base, Red River Army Depot and Reese AFB, all in Texas.
Three major sites recommended to be "disestablished," meaning closed, for practical purposes, are the Aviation Troop Command near St. Louis; the Defense Distribution Center, Ogden, Utah; and the Defense Distribution Depot, Memphis, Tenn.
Closure recommendations include: Fort McClellan, Ala.; Long
Other notable closures involving fewer than 1,000 lost jobs include the South Weymouth Naval Air Station, Mass., and Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
Realignments involving the loss for one region of at least 1,000 jobs are: Onizuka Air Station, Calif; the Naval Air Station-Agana and Naval Activities-Guam on Guam island in the Pacific; Kirtland Air Force
Base, N.M.; Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D.; and Letterkenny Army Depot, Pa.
The states with the highest net loss of jobs would be Texas with 6,981, Alabama with 4,946, New Mexico with 5,138, and Pennsylvania with 3,600.
California, a vitally important state in next year's presidential election, would lose 3,386 jobs, most of them civilian, a comparatively milt blow. Previous closure rounds claimed 26,421 civilian jobs in California. Perry said earlier reports, based on sources, that Oakland Army Base would be closed were inaccurate; he said he never considered it.
South Carolina, which lost some 15,000 jobs in the 1993 round, would gain 4,600 jobs through additions to three military bases. Other big gainers are Virginia with 3,843 jobs, Florida with 4,433, Oklahoma with 1,491 and Ohio with 1,825.
This year's recommended closure list is about 25 percent shorter than the 1993 round because of the high up-front costs of base closings. This year's round bears a $3.8 billion price tag, much of it involving relocation costs. That excludes an estimated $2 billion for environmental cleanup which the Pentagon does not count because it would have to clean up the bases whether or not they close.
Closure costs run so high that the Air Force says it will save more by reducing all five of its aircraft repair depots in California, Georgia, Utah, Texas and Oklahoma than by closing two of them.
By the year 2001, the government would begin realizing an annual $1.8 billion in savings from this round. When combined with previous rounds, that would total an annual $5.8 billion in savings.
Not all the savings will roll directly into the pockets of taxpayers, however. Perry said the first $6 billion in net savings from base closures must be invested in weapons modernization.
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