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To: LindyBill who wrote (132307)	8/14/2005 7:36:53 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793800

you tell us the best and brightest officers and civilians count manpower savings where there are no manpower savings. This one i got see . Each closing must have had several layers of review and our educated men and women didn't catch this error? Are we saying they purposefully overlooked it. If so they we need a congressional investigation into our military operations if we cannot believe what they present to congress. In others words we need to clean out the bad military management if this was a cover up. It certainly sounds like a cover up. present false documents to close bases that are really cheaper and more secure for operation. second how Ma. says that by closing Otis base it costs more to retrain,, over twenty years. huh? help me out , the current ten or twenty year expense plans for otis does not have retraining in it's budget. we are going to still fly the same national guard jets there twenty years from now? How closing a base where the next base is about ninety miles away will cost more to close than operate for the next twenty years seems very strange. Let's see, we will have duplicate air towers, runways , buildings, heating, base maintenance, if both facilities are open and i expect some higher management or officers duplicated. Willow Grove we cannot close it. McGuire air base sits sixty miles away at best.McGuire is one the top air fields, yet we need to maintain willow grove air field? Seems like more duplication of supplies, facilities to maintain. I believe both these bases have been identified prior for closing and yet again the states and politicians seems to find defense issues to keep these costly , unproductive bases open.

To: LindyBill who wrote (132307)	8/14/2005 10:54:17 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793800

Commissioners say it is too early to predict what decisions will emerge from four days of public deliberations that are scheduled to begin on Aug. 24 in Crystal City, Va., just outside Washington. Ironic that they're having the meetings in Crystal City given that they're proposing to remove all the military offices there because the buildings aren't back far enough from the street for safety against terrorism.

To: LindyBill who wrote (132307)	8/14/2005 10:54:19 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793800

Commissioners say it is too early to predict what decisions will emerge from four days of public deliberations that are scheduled to begin on Aug. 24 in Crystal City, Va., just outside Washington. Ironic that they're having the meetings in Crystal City given that they're proposing to remove all the military offices there because the buildings aren't back far enough from the street for safety against terrorism.