[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: DoD testifies in support of two new rounds

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Defense officials present case for 2 more rounds of base closures

By ANDY MEDICI
Federal Times
March 7, 2012

The Defense Department's top installations official pressed lawmakers  
Wednesday to approve for two new rounds of base closures - one in  
2013 and one in 2015.

Dorothy Robyn, deputy undersecretary of Defense for installations and  
the environment, said the five rounds of base closures from 1991  
through 2005 avoid $12 billion annually in spending on base support,  
leasing and personnel - enough to buy 300 Apache attack helicopters  
or four submarines every year. Robyn appeared at a hearing of the  
House Appropriations subcommittee for military construction.

The 2005 base closure round, which accounts for $4 billion annually  
of the savings, is not representative of the savings DoD can achieve  
in future rounds because the emphasis that year was not on savings  
but on reorienting the military to face new threats.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120307/ 
FACILITIES02/203070304/1027/FACILITIES

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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