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Friday, February 24, 2012

Region braces for new BRAC


Officials say they’re prepared to fight to keep sub base open
State and local officials say they are better prepared now than they were in 2005 to fight an order from the Pentagon to close Groton’s naval submarine base.

And while the state’s congressional delegation has called a recent announcement about the possibility of a new round of base closures “dead on arrival,” preparations for a battle are nonetheless in the works.

It was a reunion of sorts Thursday for the sub base coalition group of the Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region that led a successful fight against the last round of the U.S. Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment in 2005. The group met at Fort Trumbull in New London.

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