If Congress doesn’t agree to a proposed Base Realignment and Closure Commission, it doesn’t mean Robins Air Force Base is safe, retired Maj. Gen. Robert McMahon said Thursday.
McMahon, president of the 21st Century Partnership, told members at the group’s quarterly meeting that even without a BRAC, the Air Force still will have 24 percent excess infrastructure and a need to drastically cut spending.
He said the base could face a “stealth BRAC” in which the Air Force might decide to cut or move units on its own.
“It’s not prudent to wipe our brow and say we missed a bullet,” he said. “If there isn’t a BRAC, then the services are going to have to find other ways to absorb those reductions. There’s a variety of different ways of describing that, but it is essentially a death by a thousand cuts. So what you will begin to see is a reduction in missions and a reduction in personnel.”
As an example of what can happen even without a BRAC, McMahon said last year the base nearly lost one of its most storied units and 500 jobs that go with it.
via Robins could face cuts even without a BRAC | Military | Macon.com.
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