Military Base Closures

wrote in message
oups.com...
Try this link:
http://www.g2mil.com/2005.htm [www.g2.mil is something quite
different!]
although this on-line magazine smells a bit with just another "theory
of conspiracy";-)

By the way, the editor gives some reasons for closing MCAS Miramar.
Realistic, though not fully convinceable...

g2mil.com is a vanity web site expressing its owner's highly questionable
(but he's got a zillion of 'em) opinions. His "list" has been circulated by
a Navy deputy undersecretary, as a "leaked" DoD document, and multiple times
as an unofficial BRAC list.

The "list's" author's credentials: former (not career) Marine would made it
up to Captain and who's hobby is military affairs. Good for him.

The Marine Corps has traditionally based its air assets in close proximity
to the troops those assets will support. IIRC, Camp Pendleton is the hub of
USMC west coast and I suspect the service likes having a big slice of Marine
Air at Miramar (where it is convenient to many operating areas and targets
and a short hop to 29 Palms).

Jointness and Transformation are the guiding principles of BRAC 2005. It'll
be interesting to see if the list (Due in mid-May) reflects that kind of
thinking or merely regurgitates much of the flawed logic of BRAC 1993/5.

R / John