Futenma’s encroachment is so severe a US base would be slated for closure

Evidence

“In the United States, a base with encroachment this severe,” writes the retired Air Force officer Mark Gillem, “is a base that would find itself on the closure list.” Okinawans frequently invoke a phrase attributed to former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld calling Futenma “the World’s Most Dangerous Base.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 852

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• CANDY: Rumsfeld’s ‘World’s Most Dangerous Base’ quip is an easy conversational nugget.