This is not fun for anybody. There are jobs on the line here.

There is broad consensus in Congress to reform the Endangered Species Act,

We are always building new hangars, warehouses and other needed buildings, but we never get to the point where we build houses,

We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading into it. If approved by the president and Congress, this can only be viewed as an expansion of the missions to be conducted out of the new joint base in the future.

We clearly have been fortunate in the BRACC process,

The move would have put the 108th in limbo. It would have deteriorated and crept into oblivion,