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borgslayer
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 Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:23 am Military Base Closers & Relocations Topic |
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I dont want to bump the old post so I will a start a new.
So anyways I think it is just stupid that the U.S. Government are planning to relocate Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital. As the pentagon says it will save them billions of dollars by moving the facility to Bethesda, Maryland.
It will cost 900million dollars to relocate. The thing that disturbs me is that they are wasting money moving that darn facility. Couldn't the military just upgrade Walter Reed and make it more modern so they don't have to move to another facility. I think upgrading the facility to more modern equipments is way cheaper than moving to another hospital.
It is a waste of money moving facilities because I don't think it will save the military any money. They will just end up spending more money moving and increasing the debt.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/25/base.closings.ap/index.html
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Leo Wyatt
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:00 am |
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This is so outrageoudly wrong in my opinion. Government is all screwed up. Moving Walter Reed is not good.
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Jeff Miller
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:03 am |
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I think it's a bad idea its taking away alot of jobs that small towns need.
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Theresa
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:04 am |
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We're at war, (terrorism), and a bigger target than ever before. Yeah, closing bases, moving things, waste, that sounds logical.
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Jeremy
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:35 am |
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Well, if you remember back you said that the government would have a lot more information than we would have for Iraq, and so it was ok to go in. But now when it's something else that you disagree with it's ok?
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Theresa
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:45 am |
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It's my opinion on the situation,  I don't claim to have all the answers, Jeremy.
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Jeremy
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:03 am |
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I wasn't aiming it just as you hun, Just a general point.
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Theresa
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:06 am |
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If you like having a deep voice, you'll stop calling me hun,
And, ok. But I'll stick w/ my reply anyway,
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:24 pm |
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Well, Northa Dakota and New Mexico apparently won their lawsuits. Both of their Air Force bases are staying open, for now. However, these are the military's facilites, I'd think they'd know whats best for them.
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Hitchhiker
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:12 pm |
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| IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | Well, Northa Dakota and New Mexico apparently won their lawsuits. Both of their Air Force bases are staying open, for now. However, these are the military's facilites, I'd think they'd know whats best for them. |
Like the military knew best for the SGC; they kept on closing it even though Earth was saved numerous times from alien invasion. (Admittedly there were political concerns).
It's invasion of the bureaucrats. They balance the books and do everything on paper, regardless if the laws of physics will apply or not. Pure bistromathics at times, it seems. 
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Theresa
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| Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:14 pm |
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Our Limestone DFAS survived, so there's some good news. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard also made it, though Brunswick Naval Air Station didn't. They're apparently going to relocate a lot of them up to Bangor.
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webtaz99
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| Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:52 am |
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The military has considerations we probably would never think of, and they might just know what they're doing.
But even if they don't, it is not the military's job to support civilian communities and businesses.
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:37 pm |
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| Hitchhiker wrote: | | IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | Well, Northa Dakota and New Mexico apparently won their lawsuits. Both of their Air Force bases are staying open, for now. However, these are the military's facilites, I'd think they'd know whats best for them. |
Like the military knew best for the SGC; they kept on closing it even though Earth was saved numerous times from alien invasion. (Admittedly there were political concerns).
It's invasion of the bureaucrats. They balance the books and do everything on paper, regardless if the laws of physics will apply or not. Pure bistromathics at times, it seems. |
Yeah, stupid Kinsey. Anyway, thats just a tv show. They say that consolodation will save time and money, so perhaps it might.
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Theresa
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| Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:16 pm |
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It doesn't really make sense to pull in the bases closer to the middle of the country, though...
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:52 pm |
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Apparently to them it does. They're the paid strategests, so I'll assume they know what they're doing.
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Theresa
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| Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:58 pm |
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So dooooesn't,  BIA is to be changed to a jumping off point should we ever go to war. (In which we need to protect this country). Loring AFB (former), is also being kept up for such a purpose.
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