[CPEO-IRF] Will civilians redeploy?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Will civilians redeploy with military base jobs?
Fort Monmouth joins efforts encouraging workers to move.

By Angela Delli Santi, Associated Press
Phildelphia Inquirer
July 17, 2006

TINTON FALLS, N.J. - When Jim and Teresa Savarese drove their family to 
Aberdeen, Md., to check out the area where his civilian at Fort Monmouth 
will be transferred, a real estate agent took their three children to 
ride horses, and the kids were sold on the move.

By the time the family returned home to their Jersey Shore community of 
Point Pleasant, however, the horses were a fading memory and the 
children were back to their familiar refrain: "We don't want to move."

Whether to move or look for a new job is the choice facing tens of 
thousands of civilians who work at 22 major military bases that the 
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission has targeted to close by 
2011. The Pentagon says the plan, which also calls for 33 bases to be 
reconfigured, will save $4.2 billion a year.

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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15054135.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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