{"id":4880,"date":"2011-09-29T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2011-09-29T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:23:08","slug":"morning-read-fighting-for-fort-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/29\/morning-read-fighting-for-fort-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Fighting for Fort Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110929\/NEWS02\/709299909\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand plans to hold a meeting to organize the effort to keep Fort Drum off any closure lists as the Army prepares to downsize.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs. Gillibrand\u2019s effort \u2014 which grew out of her concerns about the  future of Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn \u2014 was met with puzzlement in the  north country. But the idea of trimming infrastructure to save money,  whether by a base closure round or other means, is not far-fetched, say  people who have worked on previous base closures or closely follow the  defense budget. Indeed, it is likely, they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be clear, no Army officials have singled out Fort Drum for cuts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110929\/NEWS02\/709299909\">But according to the WDT<\/a>, the Pentagon is looking for a total of $350 billion in cuts over the next decade nationwide and the Army Times has reported plans to cut as many as 50,000 soldier slots.<\/p>\n<p>Any closure or significant downsizing of Fort Drum would have devastating consequences for the Watertown area, which has pinned its prosperity to the enormous military complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand plans to hold a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,997,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}