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Installation Officials: Army Stands To Save Billions Through Base Closures, Consolidation

Installation Officials: Army Stands To Save Billions Through Base Closures, Consolidation
Soldiers at Fort McCoy for the Operation Cold Steel exercise operate a Humvee March 14, 2017, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Operation Cold Steel’s purpose is to qualify select gun crews to support “Objective-T” requirements for Army Early Response Forces, or AERF. Army Reserve forces, which are part of the overall AERF contingency forces, are part of the Army plan to provide a force that can deploy on short notice to respond to contingencies when needed. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)

Nearly a quarter of the Army’s infrastructure is in poor condition or failing and installation management officials would rather close or consolidate those facilities than spend the $10 billion a year needed to bring them back up to snuff.At least 22 percent, or 33,000 of the Army’s individual facilities are in worse than poor condition, according to J. Randall Robinson, acting assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment. The Army spends about $500 million a year just…

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