The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut were pulled off of the list of military bases slated to be closed.
After reviewing the Pentagon's proposals and hearing intense arguments from lawmakers, seven of nine members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission concluded that Portsmouth's submarine repair and overhaul capacity and Groton's role as the nation's oldest operating submarine base are simply too important to national security, particularly at a time when naval threats remain uncertain.
File this under Good News. Peggy Noonan makes the point on Opinion Journal that we shouldn't be closing any bases.
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