[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Pentagon says 22 percent of military bases will be excess by 2019"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon says 22 percent of military bases will be excess by 2019

By Rebecca Kheel 
The Hill
April 15, 2016

More than 20 percent of the Defense Department’s bases will be considered excess by 2019, according to a Pentagon report to Congress made public Friday.

The report, which was accompanied by a letter from Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, is meant to convince Congress of the need for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) authorization, a politically unpopular process to close installations.

“As Department of Defense leadership has repeatedly testified, spending resources on excess infrastructure does not make sense,” Work wrote. “Therefore, we urge Congress to provide the department authorization for another round of BRAC.”

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For the entire article, see
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/276528-pentagon-22-percent-of-bases-to-be-surplus-by-2019

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