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High-level leadership needed to help Guam address challenges caused by DOD-related growth / [Brian J. Lepore].
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- Author/Creator:
- Lepore, Brian J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Planning.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Military bases, American--Guam.
- Military bases, American.
- Military relations.
- Armed Forces.
- Planning.
- United States--Armed Forces--Guam.
- Guam--Military relations--United States.
- Guam.
- United States--Military relations--Guam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 pages, digital, PDF file)
- Other Title:
- High level leadership needed to help Guam address challenges caused by Department of Defense related growth
- Defense infrastructure
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In an effort to improve the U.S. military's flexibility to address conventional and terrorist threats worldwide, the Department of Defense (DOD) plans to relocate more than 8,000 Marines and an estimated 9,000 dependents from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam as well as expand other U.S. force capabilities on the island at an estimated cost of more than $13 billion. Guam is an integral part of DOD's logistical support system and serves as an important forward operational hub for a mix of military mission requirements. According to DOD, Guam provides strategic flexibility, freedom of action, and prompt global action for the Global War on Terrorism, peace and wartime engagement, and crisis response. DOD plans to begin construction on Guam during fiscal year 2010 in order to meet the desired buildup deadline of fiscal year 2014 indicated in the agreement reached by the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee on October 29, 2005. As a result of the military buildup, Guam's current population of 171,000 will increase by an estimated 25,000 active duty military personnel and dependents (or 14.6 percent), to 196,000. In addition, the realignment will require additional workers to move to the island, including non-defense personnel, DOD contractors, and transient military personnel. As such, the U.S. military realignment and buildup will substantially impact Guam's community and infrastructure.
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- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. [Bethesda, Md.] : ProQuest, 2004. digital, PDF file. ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection. Mode of access: World Wide Web via ProQuest website.
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