[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Pentagon chief pushes for new round of base closures"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon chief pushes for new round of base closures

BY ELLEN MITCHELL
The Hill
October 18, 2017

Defense Secretary James Mattis is urging Congress to allow a long-desired round of military base closures after a new report to lawmakers found that nearly one-fifth of Department of Defense (DOD) facilities are unneeded.

Mattis, in a newly released letter to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees - which handle defense matters - argues a new round of Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) talks is the only “fair, objective and proven process” to evaluate the value - or lack thereof - of such military facilities.

“Every unnecessary facility we maintain requires us to cut capabilities elsewhere,” Mattis wrote in the Oct. 6 letter, which accompanied a report that found about 19 percent of Pentagon-owned buildings are excess infrastructure.

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For the entire article, see
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/356054-pentagon-chief-pushes-for-new-round-of-base-closures

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