[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Proposed Los Alamitos (CA) land swap

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Saving private jobs by protecting JFTB Los Alamitos

Opinion by Steve Kuykendall
Orange County Breeze (CA)
February 18, 2012


With unemployment in Long Beach area well into double digits, the  
last thing we can afford is the loss of the Joint Forces Training  
Base at Los Alamitos. Yet this is a very real possibility. Secretary  
of Defense Leon Panetta wants to revive BRAC, Base Realignment and  
Closure; and when that happens, it may be too late. We must act now  
to save our base and the thousands of civilian and military jobs it  
supports.

...

As a Congressman, I helped craft a plan that saved the Los Angeles  
Air Force Base (LAAFB)-saving countless local jobs and businesses. I  
accomplished this by authoring a provision in a defense authorization  
bill that allowed an active military base to swap surplus land for  
new structures on the site it retained, making them a better steward  
of their assets and keeping LAAFB off the BRAC closure list. Similar  
action is needed to increase the value of the base and reduce  
operating expenses, if we are to save JTFB Los Alamitos from the next  
round of closures


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For the entire column, see
http://www.oc-breeze.com/2012/02/18/9415_saving-private-jobs-by- 
protecting-jftb-los-alamitos/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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