"Joe Delphi" wrote in message
news:ZdxQe.137444$E95.133853@fed1read01...
"John Carrier" wrote in message
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I've done BRAC since 91 as a volunteer consultant. Helped with community
presentations, briefed congressional, military, brac staff. Watched the
game play out. This commission was the most independent, least
consistent,
most illogical of the four. Perhaps this commission was too smart for
its
(our?) own good.


I see where the BRAC voted to move 2,250 RDT&E jobs from NAWC Point Mugu
to
China Lake. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I don't think many of
the
2,250 people will sell their nice homes in Ventura county to move the
middle
of the desert - so it will be another brain drain for the Navy.
Hopefully,
by the time they convince 2,250 new hires to move the middle of the desert
and train them, they will feel like they got their money's worth out of
that
decision.


JD

A good point. Had several friends that did China Lake tours and they LOVED
the experience, but giving up the left coast lifestyle (particularly if
you're not being beaten about the head and shoulders by a mortgage payment
you don't really want to afford) for Ridgecrest would be a shock.

R / John