{"id":6394,"date":"2012-08-08T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:41:08","slug":"obama-administration-military-base-closures-still-on-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/08\/08\/obama-administration-military-base-closures-still-on-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration:  Military base closures still on table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79483.html?hp=l8\">Politico is reporting today <\/a>that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is still describing base closures as &#8220;inevitable&#8221; despite bipartisan resistance in Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a speech in Monterey, Calif., on Monday, Panetta told members of the Association of Defense Communities that reviving the base realignment and closure process would come up again before long, as the Pentagon copes with a $487 billion reduction in budget growth over the coming decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an important debate that we have to have and, frankly, it\u2019s not going away,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most observers believe that Fort Drum would not be targeted by this kind of downsizing, but distrust of the process has been high since the mid-90s when the Pentagon abruptly reversed course and mothballed the Plattsburgh Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico is reporting today that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is still describing base closures as [&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":[997,882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394"}],"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=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}