Base Closures

I was both angered and horrified by your story on base closures (Dec. 5). To suggest that the process has “generally worked well” is as inane as it is untrue. The process has worked about as well as a three-legged racehorse. Invaluable training and maintenance facilities have been forever lost in the mad race for short-term savings. If you would take the time to talk with officers and planners in the field, rather than the out-of-touch, office-sequestered “experts,” you’d find this to be true.

The fact is that building new facilities for relocated units and equipment is costing far more than the present infrastructure. Then you discuss plans for future base closures. Future base closures? You can’t be serious! If this nonsense continues much longer, there will be no military left!

SCOTT M. PATTERSON

Upland