rosepetal there isnt enough space here to go into what went into the the base closings of the 60’s. i have done extensive research for DOD about the base closings and the impact, including the two instances i mentioned, walker and lincoln. i have wnadered around roswell and other locations in the middle of the day and where a few years ago they were bustling little cities they are now ghost towns. it still breaks my heart to go to greenville mississippi to thier old base, they have not done as good of a job as mobile and Bay Haas has done reusing the old facilities. I still dont buy that mobile was closed because of a political decision. we were changing from prop to jet transport and it was more efficient to shift the work to texas and mclellan, wehre there was more space to fly and the work was more concentrated.the dod was getting smaller even then. email me and i wil forward some of what i have written and collected as a dod historian and retired USAF pilot who actually flew one

Mirwren , that is a bunch of bull, it is the pocket book of some on both sides. democrats at lead followed by some republicans. it was the current republican candidate running for president who exposed boeings corruption. i doubt it will effect the republican vote in alabama.

I think this “Republican” Administration has made a political mistake in Alabama. It may be that the state will decide it does not support Republican’s in the future. This a ploy by the current administration to give Boeing just that much more time to get it together. The conditions for the contract, if there is really a “need” for the contract, and who will be allowed to be involved in bidding will ALL have to be began again from scratch. In that amount of time, Boeing “might” (but I doubt it), get caught up on those contracts they are currently 8 years behind on. The Bush Administration ought to be ashamed of themselves and there ought to be some recourse for us - after all when they awarded N-G/EADS the contract here the first time, Boeing sued. There should be some way we can force the “current administration” to complete this process they “promised” to complete by December.

claycitymadness, do you remember when one of the posters sent this message to you?

Beyond that claycitymadness, you can shove your opinions up the orifice that follows you around every where you go.

i just wanted you to know i agree.

I was in the 5th grade when Brookley closed. My daddy had to chose between going to Texas or Pensacola. Well, gosh, he went to Pensacola so we could say here in Fairhope.

brookley was closed along with many other bigger and more strategically important bases in the 60s as we transitioned from one weapon system to another, from bombers to missiles and the need for logistics bases dimished. most of the rest of the big logistics bases like kelly in san antonio and mclellen where many of the brookley workers relocated to also closed later as the mission further changed. we just dont need the services offered by thoses bases any longer. although it severly inpacted mobile many other towns with less to fall back on also got hurt during the base closing, like roswell, lincoln nebraska, and many others that had more planes attached, missiles, and were more vital to defense.

were they not assembling the planes in mobile we would probably feel differently about it. it is irrisponsible for the mayor to make the comment he did given the limited amount of information he had available to him.