training rooms, offices for special operations and military communications, backup generators, a barbershop, shower rooms for those who work round-the-clock shifts and a 10-car garage for commanders.
The key to the expansion seems to be an attempt to avoid base closure;
The Defense Department’s hit list, due in May, isn’t likely to omit bases from closure just because they’ve had recent construction projects, he said, because a $50 million investment is “chicken feed” compared with the billions of dollars the Pentagon wants to save by closing a quarter of the nation’s bases.
However, referring to the new project, Hellman said, “It seems they’re making themselves pretty cozy there.”
