The real-life NCIS is moving from the Washington Navy Yard to the Quantico Marine Base.
One real problem I have with BRAC is that in my non-humble opinion, the Navy's fleet is being concentrated into too few bases. But that's probably a subject for another day.
Anyway, I had to do a bit of Googling, as it was NIS (no "criminal") when I was a blue-suiter. Their job back then was busting sailors for being gay, busting sailors for drugs, investigating break-ins of ship's stores and, most of all, helping to protect the careers of senior officers. The investigation into the turret explosion of the USS Iowa was a sterling example of NIS's work back in the day.
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As a former sailor in the Canadian navy, some of us thought that it was very convenient to have a gay scapegoat handy. Seemed to have worked very well for your navy but we decided to blame evrything wrong on retired people....
Thanks for keeping your eyes pealed on where Abby and Jethro are being relocated.
As the incompetence of America's management goes into high gear, those criminal investigative services will definitely come into play sooner or later, and there's no one I'd rather see on the case.
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Allan, it didn't work out well for the US Navy. The families pushed back, hard. On further investigation, it turned out that the probably cause of the turret explosion was a combination of the use of unauthorized powder charges and over-ramming of the charges. The navy had to eat a huge amount of crow. It seemed as though the underlying of the original investigation as to protect the careers of the senior officers involved.
The investigation was a significant black mark on the navy's reputation at a time was not so good, what with the Tailhook fracas and other scandals.
RBAC has also helped cause a lot of additional construction on the remaining bases. As I traveled around the various Army bases in the '90s and early this decade, it was pretty clear which ones were going to stay open, based on how much new construction there was.
I can't say whether we're really saving money, but in the long run I suspect we'll save less than we thought.
As to the construction being an indicator of which installations would remain open, that didn't follow for Plattsburgh Air Force Base, as all the base housing was rebuilt to new before the place was permanently closed.
Heckuva job, Uncle Sugar!
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