ATTENTION ALL MILITARY, IT'S 'BRAC' TIME AGAIN
William Boyd
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ONTO ALL MILITARY RETIREES AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE
ATTENTION ALL MILITARY RETIREES:
and ... "potential" retirees ...
"Medical care" for you andyour family is about to get even harder to
accomplish! So much for the "benefits" we all "earned".
The 2004-2005 "BRAC" Lists are out ....fresh of the presses .....
Grab your vaseline ... good ol' Uncle Sugar is about to stick it to
you again....
Merry Christmas!
Its "BOHICA" time.....
(the acronym means "bend over, here it comes again!")
Forwarded Via Wndbear
BRAC: "Base Realignment and Closures" List
Army Posts/Bases currently proposed for closure or realignment in
2005 include:
* Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
* Detroit Arsenal, Michigan
* Fort Belvoir, Virginia
* Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
* Fort McPherson/Gillem, Georgia
* Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
* Fort Monroe, Virginia
* Fort Polk, Louisiana (to realign)
* Fort Richardson, Alaska
* Fort Sam Houston, Texas
* Fort Shafter, Hawaii
* Army Tank Plant, Lima, Ohio
* Natick Soldier Center, Massachusetts
* Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
* Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
* Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois
* Sierra Army Depot, California
* Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona
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Air Force Base/Station closures and realignments include:
* Altus AFB, Oklahoma
* Beale AFB, California
* Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas
* Cannon AFB, New Mexico
* Columbus AFB, Mississippi
* Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota
* Goodfellow AFB, Texas
* Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota
* Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts
* Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
* Los Angeles AFB, California
* McConnell AFB, Kansas
* Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, Nevada (to realign)
* Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina (to realign)
* Shaw AFB, South Carolina
* Vance AFB, Oklahoma
The Air Force will lose 2,260 military and 2,839 civilian manpower
positions, and 1,055 reserve drill authorizations next year,
according to the 2004 force-structure announcement released July
23. Many bases, both active duty and reserve component, are affected
by the realignment. In many cases, units will gain aircraft and
missions, while others will pare down.
Besides manpower reductions, the realignment formally announces the
retirement of the C-9A Nightingale and KC-135E Stratotanker aircraft.
According to Air Force officials, the 20 C-9s are being retired
because of reduced-patient movement, range limitations and
increasing maintenance and upgrade costs. The aeromedical-evacuation
mission will become a requirements-based system using all
passenger-capable aircraft.
The service will retire 44 of the Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve Command's 43-year-old KC-135Es next year, replacing them
with 24 KC-135Rs from the active-duty fleet. By the end of fiscal
2006, the Air Force will have retired 68 of the KC-135Es.
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Naval Base/Station closures and realignments include:
* Naval Station, Ingleside, Texas
* Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
* Naval Air Station, Meridian, Mississippi
* Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey
* Naval Recreation Station, Solomons Island,
* Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana
* Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia
* Navy Supply Corps School, Savanah, Georgia
* Naval Support Activity, New Orleans, Louisiana
* Naval Station, Pascagoula, Mississippi
* Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
* Naval Support Unit, Saratoga Springs, New York
==================================================================
Marine Corps Base/Station closures and realignments include:
* Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Georgia
* Marine Corps Logistics Base, Barstow, California (realignment)
* Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California
* Marine Corps Mountain Warfare School, LA, California
* Marine Reserve Support Unit, Kansas City, Missouri
* Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California (realign or close).
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Posted by HOPPIE, 30 Years Active Duty ,13 Campaigns Vietnam, Life
Member; Am.Lgn,DAV,VFW,AFSA
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Posted by HOPPIE, 30 Years Active Duty ,13 Campaigns Vietnam, Life
Member; Am.Lgn,DAV,VFW,AFSA
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Rick
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Perry
wrote:
>Is anyone stupid enough to think this is "information"?
>
>Rick
I hope not since BRAC committee hasn't even been formed yet and won't
be until 2005. No one knows what installations will be closed until
then.
ZombyWoof
wrote something wonderfully witty:
>
>PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ONTO ALL MILITARY RETIREES AS SOON AS
>POSSIBLE
>
>ATTENTION ALL MILITARY RETIREES:
>and ... "potential" retirees ...
>
>"Medical care" for you andyour family is about to get even harder to
>accomplish! So much for the "benefits" we all "earned".
>
>The 2004-2005 "BRAC" Lists are out ....fresh of the presses .....
>
>Grab your vaseline ... good ol' Uncle Sugar is about to stick it to
>you again....
>
>Merry Christmas!
>
>Its "BOHICA" time.....
>(the acronym means "bend over, here it comes again!")
>
Let me ask you something. Do you truly and honestly feel that it is
the United States Governments responsibility to keep unneeded
facilities open simply so you can get Medical Care? That is assinine
you know. You still have your Tri-Care benefits and the ability to
move closer to another Military facility if being close to one is so
precious to you.
Many of those facilities on your list have needed to be closed for
years. Some of them have been threatened for closure for years. My
Dad worked at Ft Monmouth NJ for 40 years. Seems every year they were
talking about closing or realigning that base. I can't even remember
all of the things that it has been over the years. Same goes for
Lakehurst & Hanscom. Old cows that need to be put out to pasture.
The requirements of the cold war aren't the requirements of today's
world.
--
"Y'know I remember when things were a lot more fun around here
When good was good and evil was evil
Before things got so fuzzy"
Don Henley, The Garden of Allah