Return to Article: Cost of moving overseas bases elusive
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11021
Here we go again with a reporter giving only part of the picture and saying so!
1. PCS cost has to be half of what it is currently because everyone is only going one way - back to USA and not out of USA.
2. We will not have to maintain the facilities overseas to the current level and will not have to expand the facilities or replace wornout equipment over there.
3. This is the one they always miss. The returning troops will spend their money in the USA and generate sales taxes, property taxes, excise taxes and other USA revenues other rather than German or English revenues.
Whe you talk about cost of the move you also should consider the benefits of the move!
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11011
Hmm... makes you wonder if the big wigs can manage budgets. On local levels, managers get drilled on their budgets and have to justify them. (I go through this routine twice a year, and often demanded to tell people where every cent goes.) Why isn't this same standard required at the top?
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10998
Future costs are always elusive, and moving from overseas bases is no exception. However, there is at least some historical precedence for such moves. In the 1980s, there were over 300,000 US military personnel in Europe. There is now about a third that number. Has anyone bothered to check how that move was carried out and how much it cost? Obviously there will be significant differences, but I don't remember such a profound debate over those moves. In fact it was seen as a 'peace benefit'. There are certainly new trade-offs to consider, but actual costs (plus inflation) for the earlier return of troops might give us a reasonable starting point.
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10980
Please correct me if I am way off but isn't the cost savings from this round of BRAC closures only supposed to save around $25 Billion over the next decade or two?
If it will cost up to or likely more than $25 Billion to shut down the overseas bases and relocate the troops what's the whole point then in shutting anything down.
Only thing I can make out is that it will eliminate around 26,187 DoD civilian jobs.
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