[CPEO-IRF] Impact of the Brunswick (ME) closure

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

BNAS closure to impact retirees, will change makeup of community 

Rachel Ganong
Brunswick Times Record (ME)
September 30, 2005

BRUNSWICK - When the Base Realignment and Closure commission voted in
August to close Brunswick Naval Air Station, Harry Rich, Ralph Dean and
Van McCullough mourned the loss of a strategic military base for their
nation. 

But the decision also affected them personally - as military retirees. 

When the base closes, they will neither use the Navy Exchange, dental
clinic or other services the base offers retirees nor introduce their
younger Navy comrades to an area they've chosen to call home. 

Retired Rear Adm. Harry Rich said even though he's a Maine native, if it
weren't for the presence of BNAS he would never have experienced "the
total blending of the college, military and community" in Brunswick.
He's lived about everywhere from Nagano, Japan, to Corpus Christi,
Texas, but Brunswick still tops his list. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/D2ABED3ECF8F54F30525708C005A0BF1?Opendocument



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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