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2011-04-10 Europe

Army transferring just one brigade from Germany

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Posted by Pappy 2011-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Why? POMCUS the materials with caretakers and return the lot. If the Euros are not up to protecting their own interests, why should we? This is just another version of PBS and NPR, it has a life of its own, its tradition, its precedent. It's expensive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-10 00:17|| 2011-04-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 part of a larger post-Cold War drawdown

No need to rush only 20 years since the CW ended.

Posted by phil_b 2011-04-10 03:55|| 2011-04-10 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The Germans calculated out that having the US forces there stimulates their economy by billions of dollars every year, at minimal social cost, that is, welfare.

Figure the average base pay for all personnel in a brigade of 5,000 is about E4, or $25,000, that's $125,000,000. Now add off post housing for a quarter of them, which probably bumps it up to $200m. And lots more on top of that.

And that "windfall" money has a pebble in a pond effect.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-10 09:30|| 2011-04-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The Germans calculated out that having the US forces there stimulates their economy

They could look back on their experience in the mid-'90s, when President Clinton closed so many bases. When we moved out shortly thereafter, the new tenants paid about 1/3rd less rent.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-10 20:58|| 2011-04-10 20:58|| Front Page Top

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