nafod40 wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
As a sort to token ****ing off of Jeb...

Land is cheaper in the south. Weather is better. The threat is mostly
in
the Pacific. The 777 will have the speed and legs to make the main
site
of basing far less important. So good reasons to realign to the
south,
not just because Jeb lives there. Same thing for Portsmouth Naval
Shipyard.

As for keeping it as a NAF, Andrew's question is a good one. Possible

reasons, in no order or no particular logical structure...

We can just have dets show up at Brunswick on an as-needed basis.
SERE
school support. Ease in the final decomm of the base. Support for
boats
coming out of Bath Iron Works (over 20% of base dedicated to that.)
Toxic waste in ground (easier to keep open than to clean). Maybe some

tenants that have to be there. Big-time Navy Reserve support to the
northeast, even more so as NAS Willow Grove goes away. Maybe shift
Coast
Guard SAR assets from Otis ANG (getting closed) to Brunswick.


The Navy provides a KC-130 tanker for helicopter air refueling, E-2C
aircraft for enhanced air traffic control and [4] P-3 aircraft for
search and rescue operations in the mid-Atlantic region all operating
from Patrick AFB just below Cape Canaveral..