From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 19:35:14 PST
At 8:40 PM -0600 1/8/06, Sonny Heath wrote:
>I heard that they had made a decision to cut
>back within Germany but I did not hear that they
>were closing all bases there. I don't think they
>will close Ramstein nor Landstuhl but I could be
>wrong.
>
>I watched the Navy build billions of dollars
>worth of different buildings and infrastructure
>at the NTC in Orlando during the late eighties
>and then five or six years later they got
>bulldozed to the ground and the Navy closed up
>and moved away. Made me sick. I went back there
>after not being there for two or three years and
>had a hard time finding my way around to my
>Credit Union building, which did not get dozed
>but the city forced them the remodel it to fit
>in with all the buildings they built there. Talk
>about Government waste, geez
Some of the highest costs for the military isn't
capital purchases, but manpower costs. If the
IOWA's didn't take 1000+ crew to operate, they'd
not have been mothballed as much as they were.
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