[CPEO-IRF] Future of Oceana Naval Air Station (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon says long-term goal is to replace Oceana

By DALE EISMAN
The Virginian-Pilot
July 16, 2005

An Oceana-based F-14 Tomcat.

WASHINGTON - Navy and Defense Department officials ultimately want to 
replace Oceana Naval Air Station with "a new, 21st century Master Jet 
Base" elsewhere on the East Coast, the Pentagon disclosed Friday.

In a letter to a congressionally chartered commission studying military 
bases nationwide, the Defense Department indicated it has no specific 
plan to replace Oceana - likely a multi-billion dollar project that 
could take a decade or more to complete - but asserted that a new "from 
the ground up” facility would best serve the Navy's long-term needs.

A new base "is by far the preferred choice" over moving Oceana's F-14 
Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet fighters to Moody Air Force 
Base in Georgia or some other existing facility, the Pentagon letter said

...

For the entire article, see
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=89283&ran=81832

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Lenny Siegel
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