Tension mounts as base-closing process takes shape

The military base-closing process scheduled for 2005 is already starting to heat up. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the Pentagon had plans to close more than 100 installations, including one-fourth of all Army bases and a third of Air Force facilities. The Pentagon says no decisions have been made and denied the numbers reported by the newspaper.

There's no question, however, that the Defense Department is considering closing a long list of bases in 2005. In the current issue of Government Executive, George Cahlink reports that the Pentagon's point man on the base-closing process, Raymond DuBois, says the upcoming base closures will be far different and more aggressive than those in the late 1980s and 1990s, which resulted in 97 bases being shuttered.

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