[CPEO-IRF] BRAC already impacting Groton (CT) sub base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC Effects Already Taking Hold At Groton Submarine Base
With potential shutdown on horizon, work force motivation becomes issue

By ROBERT A. HAMILTON
New London Day
July 1, 2005

Groton -  When the security director at the Naval Submarine Base gave 
notice last month that he was leaving, Capt. Sean Sullivan hoped to fill 
the civilian job before the director departed. But there were no takers 
for the senior management position, which starts at almost $80,000.

Sullivan, the base commanding officer, said he's pretty sure the reason 
is that people who are qualified for that kind of position are well 
aware that the Pentagon has proposed closing the base over the next six 
years.

“It's going to be hard getting anybody, while there's this uncertainty, 
to move from wherever they are to a base that's on the chopping block,” 
Sullivan said. “Those issues will mount as time goes on, and we need 
strategies to get through them.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=2C5A462E-8316-4EBF-AE7D-26657E6B0D33


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Lenny Siegel
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