[CPEO-IRF] Overseas Basing Commission says "slow down"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon urged to slow overseas base-closure plans

By Gordon Trowbridge
Navy Times
May 5, 2005

An advisory panel has called for the Pentagon to slow its plans to close 
overseas bases and bring troops back to the United States, saying the 
military may not have enough space for those troops at U.S. bases or 
enough transport capacity to deploy them abroad in a crisis.

Easing the pace of overseas restructuring "is of paramount importance in 
addressing quality of life issues for 70,000 returning American military 
personnel plus their families," Al Cornella, chairman of the Overseas 
Basing Commission, said in a statement accompanying the panel's May 5 
report.

"The detailed synchronization required by so massive a realignment ... 
requires that the pace of events be slowed and reordered," the report 
contends.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-830133.php

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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