On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:23:09 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in
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Basing them off shore would have been a LOT more expensive. There's
no infrastructure there, it would all have to be built.

There is a massive Navy base.

I suppose that depends on your definition of 'massive.'

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