Re: Base Closure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

JACKSONVILLE ORGANIZES AGAINST CLOSURE

 The full Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission has
not yet even been appointed, but the Navy town of Jacksonville, Florida is
already organizing to oppose additional base closures there as part of the
1995 BRAC round. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles recently presented the
city of Jacksonville with a $100,000 grant after touring the Naval Aviation
Depot there with Senate Armed Services Committee chair Sam Nunn (D-
Georgia). The city has already budgeted $500,000 for what it calls, "base
defense." (Florida Times Union, October 13, 1994)