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BRAC list expected next week

Some have it coming out on Friday, the 13th. [Note to inbound googlers, you'll want to look at today's BRAC post as well. ebw]

Others have it coming out in the Tuesday-to-Thursday window.

It could be as early as Tuesday. Prior post is here.

I sent my C.V. to robert.cook@wso.whs.mil. No reply. None expected actually. Nothing from General Dynamcs or the Portsmouth Yard or any member of the Maine or New Hampshire delegations either. I guess it really isn't that important. Owls Head Aviation can rattle around in Brunswick, and Portsmouth/Kittery can take a sober look at a casino hotel as its industrial future. Maybe the Mic'macs will bail them out.

Really its the New Hampshire Republicans in the House and Senate who get to run for re-election on a "bogus defense jobs are bad for NH but good elsewhere" message. Mainers can try and get Phish to do two gigs a season, one at Loring, the other at the NAS. Of course, the next cycle will present candidates the opportunity to articulate a defense industrial and continental readiness policy that translates differently from the current one. The photo is from MB's piece in July, 2003. The Portsmouth Yard is across the harbor, and in July 2007 most of the 4,100 civilians working for SUBMEPP will be working on their last ERO, and looking at relocation to Norfolk, Virginia, and the rest of Portsmouth will be looking at a finite date when the Yard is padlocked. Their Year(s) Zero.

Peace Action Maine will declare a moral victory, which won't actually change the truely insane and dangerous weapons systems and policies that are contingent on weapons systems from continuing to be truely insane and dangerous, but everyone likes a moral victory. Even Pyrrhus of Epirus.

Posted by EBW at May 6, 2005 01:44 PM | TrackBack