Split basing forces soldiers on a nine-hundred-mile round-trip for training

Evidence

This raises the question: Why would the Army want to move soldiers from Germany to Italy, only to send them back to Germany on a regular basis for training? Even if the new decision to maintain a split basing arrangement means that only four battalions will be making the nearly nine-hundred-mile round-trip to get to the training areas, transporting two thirds of the 173rd brigade to Germany on a regular basis clearly adds to the new base’s effective total cost. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 762

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the final budget account for the added transportation cost of shuttling troops back to Germany for training?

Related

• The Army could not produce a cost analysis supporting its changed basing decision (similarity 0.83)
• The Pentagon’s cost-saving justifications for European base moves are unreliable (similarity 0.79)
• The split-basing problem justifying Vicenza expansion was self-inflicted (similarity 0.79)
• The Army abandoned its stated consolidation purpose after spending most of the build funds. (similarity 0.78)