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Army Chooses Austin as Site for Futures Command Headquarters
Department of Defense ^ | 7/13/18

Posted on 07/13/2018 7:56:34 PM PDT by Blue House Sue

WASHINGTON -- Austin, Texas, will be the location for the headquarters of the new U.S. Army Futures Command, Army Secretary Mark T. Esper announced today at a Pentagon news conference.

Army Undersecretary Ryan D. McCarthy then explained the details. He said the process started with 150 metropolitan areas, narrowed down to five. Besides Austin, officials considered Boston; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Philadelphia

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To: Blue House Sue

At least all the employees can hire cheap labor to do their lawns and clean their houses.

They must not be doing anything very secret at this new command. Austin is a sieve.


21 posted on 07/13/2018 8:34:08 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Night Hides Not

Agree; just can’t understand “Austin”. Horrible place for military families to live.


22 posted on 07/13/2018 8:35:52 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: bgill

“Austin has been home to the Camp Mabry Joint Force Headquarters since 1892.”

Camp Maybry is in a neighborhood surrounded by houses that are all over a million dollars, and there are no problems at all.


23 posted on 07/13/2018 8:37:00 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue

The Army is trying to be fiscally responsible by growing the Army. Putting the completely unnecessary command in Austin, Texas of all places is just so typical. This is almost Onion material. Where is congressional over site? The Army has been bludgeoned with base closures,manpower shortage and budget constraints after continuous war since 9/11. Let’s slash the officer ranks across the board and cut the fat from the Pentagon and other worthless Army commands.


24 posted on 07/13/2018 8:37:32 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Only 100 Army personnel. The other 400 will be civilian.

This is Obama era initiated garbage.


25 posted on 07/13/2018 8:38:24 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: MrEdd

CENTCOM is located in am urban area.


26 posted on 07/13/2018 8:47:12 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Blue House Sue

The regents wouldn’t have to provide squat. Fort Hood has space and as a bonus, it isn’t overrun with America hating freaks like Austin is.


27 posted on 07/13/2018 8:52:03 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Kenny Bania

And it’s a bad Idea.
Yuma was for decades host to a massive Air Force Ammunition facility. That was an egregious example of stupid.

I don’t understand the purpose of your non sequitur post.
I never said it hadnt come about before.
I pointed out that locating legitimate military targets near population centers is stupid and irresponsible.


28 posted on 07/13/2018 8:53:18 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Blue House Sue

so much liberalism, I guess they like protests in the cities they had to choose from.

who made that list?


29 posted on 07/13/2018 8:54:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: jospehm20

“Besides Austin, officials considered Boston; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Philadelphia.”

I don’t think Ft. Hood was under consideration for the Futures Command Headquarters.


30 posted on 07/13/2018 8:54:52 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue

Hope this effort has a better outcome than the last time with the Future Combat System (FCS). Spent a lot of money with little return.


31 posted on 07/13/2018 8:55:23 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: a fool in paradise

“who made that list?”

I think it was the Department of Defense.


32 posted on 07/13/2018 8:55:41 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: jospehm20

I’d bet the people who are going to staff the place would rather live in Austin, where there is stuff to do outside of work, rather than in rural, boring Killeen.


33 posted on 07/13/2018 8:58:03 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Blue House Sue

The same sort of brain that said it would be a bigger tragedy than the massacre of men women and children at Ft. Hood if somehow our military was to become less diverse than it was while tolerating a known wolf islamonazi who was known to be communicating with Al Qaeda?


34 posted on 07/13/2018 8:59:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Kenny Bania

put it in Brooklyn then. hipsters like Brooklyn.


35 posted on 07/13/2018 9:00:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Blue House Sue

Judging by the list, it looks like like they were going for overrun by America hating freaks locations. I am guessing the officials mentioned were Obama promoted officials.


36 posted on 07/13/2018 9:04:44 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Kenny Bania

For sure. The main consideration of any military organization should always be how much fun you can have when you aren’t working. /s


37 posted on 07/13/2018 9:08:50 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Blue House Sue

Huh? Why does the military want to invest in soybeans and pork bellies?
Perhaps they don’t understand what “futures” means. Or I don’t.


38 posted on 07/13/2018 9:10:02 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Windflier

Read the following article for what the purpose of this endeavor is attempting
to accomplish. It by far isn’t a military base type operation but rather an attempt
at providing future needs for the military. jmo.

https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/army-quality-life-tech-culture-helped-austin-land-futures-command/ZGcZQ6lVxkvLpInlDRSUyL/
Army: Quality of life, tech culture helped Austin land Futures Command


39 posted on 07/13/2018 9:11:17 PM PDT by deport
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To: bgill
Not that many will be stationed there but every one will offset those freaky uber liberal treehugging enviro illegal lovin’ freaks who want to keep Austin weird.

Doubtful...today's military is more liberal than we care to admit, a somewhat socialist meritocracy, and it helps to attach yourself to the right people.

It's always been that way, though I'm glad I never served in a unit larger than battalion size. I liked the idea of being a bigger fish in a smaller pond, where I had to wear multiple hats.

40 posted on 07/13/2018 9:12:20 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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