The Sooner, The Better

 

1. But how to get a congressman, up for re-election every two years, to vote for closing a military base in his district? You know there is going to be a story on the local TV station about some 80-year-old, blind, amputee, Medal-of-Honor winner now forced to hitchike 50 miles to shop at the PX.

   Posted by Oink       03/21/2005  at  12:05 PM  



2. Bob and Vilmar are both very correct. In San Bernardino, CA, Clinton closed Norton AFB (and made the quite-nearby March AFB an Air Reserve Base). Norton later became San Bernardino International, pretty much for air freight, but when Air Force One comes into town, it lands there. Also, as mentioned, the buildings all around the base became an industrial park, and the base housing became low-income housing, I think. Also, the hangars, which I presume must have been for fighters or smaller transports, became the base of operations for all the fire operations when the forest just about burned down a couple years ago.

   I don’t think the area has been economically better-off in its entire history. And everyone was having doom-and-gloom predictions, too.

   Actually, I would say that bases are only economically net-beneficial in foreign lands, like Germany or Puerto Rico (that later one being all-but-foreign).

   Posted by Dac       03/21/2005  at  03:04 PM  



3. Atta Boys to Vilmar and BobF. Ain’t to much left to be said.

   Posted by LC Geno       03/21/2005  at  04:09 PM  



4. That is pretty cool. Those hangars were big, but they weren’t very tall, at least not on the inside. But I would suppose that they have been worked on quite a bit in the last decade.

   Posted by Dac       03/23/2005  at  02:35 PM  

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