1995 Army Team Lead Desk Material - Adds to List Hearing, May 21, 1993 Page: 85 of 222
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DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE COMMISSION
9 guess it was, I feel that it would be unwise for this
'0 Commission to reopen things that have been decided. I
t Ii1 believe that there's a distinction that can be made between
12 the Tustin review, which was recommended by the Secretary of
13 Defense, and something that we base as just a community
14 concern that would add, again, to a base closing assignment.
15 And I think we tend to open Pandora's box. So 1
16 would be prepared to offer a motion that we should not
17 consider Loring to be looked at again.
18 CHAIRMAN COURTER: Commissioner Johnson?
19 GEN JOHNSON: I certainly didn't go through the
20 agony that you and the Chairman went through last time. I
21 know Loring very well, and it certainly has a premier
22 strategic location in our country. It's the nearest base to
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W Europe and has all the attributes that you looked at last
2 time, but I, as Commissioner Stuart, respect the finality of
3 your decision before.
4 CHAIRMAN COURTER: Is there any other discussion
5 with regard to revisiting Loring?
6 COMMISSIONER COX: If I might just ask a question,
7 having not gone through it in 1991.
8 Certainly, the finality of decisions, I think, is
9 terribly important. Otherwise, as you point out, the '95
10 Commission will be looking at everything we're doing now.
11 On the other hand, things do change in the world. Security
12 may change. There may be major national needs that ought to
13 be looked at.
14 Maybe the staff could, at least, comment on
~whether, given the change in circumstances that we're now
1R looking at mobility bases, with perhaps Loring. So clearly,PageSaver
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disservice by sticking to the finality of decisions,
regardless of whether they make sense at this point or not.
CHAIRMAN COURTER: Frank, did you get a chance to
listen to Commissioner Cox?
MR. CIRILLO: Yes, I did.Page 700 of 880 Pages
1 CHAIRMAN COURTER: Is there anything you want to
2 add or say?
3 MR. CIRILLO: In the 1991 process, Loring was
4 looked at as a bomber base and as a tanker base. The
5 mobility base concept was not part of the discussion at that
6 time, so we haven't evaluated it as a mobility base, per se.
7 However, these elements were certainly looked at at that
8 time, such as aprons, fueling, closeness to the refueling
9 tracks, and facility conditions.
10 Those issues like that were certainly part and
11 parcel of the evaluation. I was also not a part of that
12 process, but that's f-om what I know.
13 COMMISSIONER COX: But as Commissioner Johnson has
14 pointed out, there certainly is a strategic value there that
15 perhaps is greater than some of the other bases. Are there
16 other factors like that? Do you think they're --
17 MR. CIRILLO: It has been on our table. We really
18 haven't had an opportunity to look at it.
19 CHAIRMAN COURTER: Frank, let me pose the question
20 this way: In your judgement -- and, of course, you've not
21 studied Loring, and so you can't comment on it -- but
22 analyze it from this standpoint. You have broken up the,Page 701 of 880 Pages
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