America’s military bases are slowly falling apart

Mackenzie Eaglen , 19fortyfive 

• Deteriorating facilities are contributing to maintenance delays and limited availability of ships, aircraft, and vehicles across the US military.
• Commanders are already feeling the consequences, and Congress will eventually have to pay to repair or rebuild those bases.
• Mackenzie Eaglen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Military bases help generate combat power, and they are falling apart. Deteriorating facilities are contributing to maintenance delays and limiting the operational availability of ships, aircraft and vehicles across the armed forces.

While the US Senate voted down an effort to update numerous military facilities and infrastructure, the problems are not going away.

Take the Air Force as an example. Airbases are confronting a $30 billion backlog for repair, even as these same facilities are a “determining factor in the success of air operations. The two-legged stool of men and planes would topple over without this equally important third leg,” said Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold in 1941.

The service’s hefty pricetag in deferred maintenance and recapitalization will triple in the next 30 years. This trajectory essentially guarantees “readiness and lethality risks due to continued and increasingly rapid degradation of infrastructure.”……more here

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