In my opinion: Not a great idea.
There is already a BRAC Commission, a Pentagon entity the sole purpose of which is to CLOSE MILITARY FACILITIES!
Are you actually aware of how many military facilities have been closed and or down-sized since 1990?
It is my view that the BRAC Commission is now a run-away freight train: It works with bureaucratic blindness and keeps trimming our resources.
In my opinion the BRAC Commission needs to be placed on hold.
The expansion/reopening of few overseas bases does not even come close to mitigating some of the most egregious closures of the past two decades (e.g., George AFB, Norton AFB, several Navy facilities in California, Kelly AFB, Ft Ord, and more).
And, don’t get me started on the unfortunate new “Joint Basing” concept . . . . (Insanity.)
Leon Panetta was a big winner in the closing of Fort Ord, in California.
He now has a taxpayer funded ‘institute’ on the former base, where his wife gets a handsome salary to run it.
There was a conference in California in 1996 I think, run by Mikhail Gorbachev, attended by many many politicians involved in base closings. The theme which has been accomplished around the country, was to close bases and then allow globalist institutes and schools take them over. In Fort Ord, not only does the rotten globalist Panetta institute exist, but a state university which teaches ‘social justice’ was also put there.
Gorbachev was handed keys to a ‘villa’ on the San Francisco Presidio, the minute it was shut down. How ironic that the communist enemy from the cold war, shooed the military away at the gateway to the pacific and and is ensconced in the military base as its prize tenet. Traitor politicians helped him.
Who won the cold war? Not US!