Another Shot At Saving Fort Monmouth

This in from Oceanport Councilman Joe Irace.

There is an email campaign among Fort Monmouth employees to appeal to President Obama to reverse the BRAC decision to close Fort Monmouth. An organizer appealed to Irace to drum up community support.

Here's the email:


Subject: BRAC, Ft. Monmouth 2011 Move to APG Maryland
Topic: Anti-BRAC E-mail Campaign

On 11 Feb 09, we asked you to e-mail President Obama to lobby against the Ft. Monmouth’s BRAC move. It appears that our effort had some success.

During a recent conversation at the Ft. Monmouth Union Hall; we were told: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE, the federal employee Union) National Office received information; the President is reconsidering funding for four (4) BRAC moves, with Ft. Monmouth as the leading contender.

Your e-mails will further support our quest to end the waste of taxpayer dollars to transfer the Army’s Communications & Electronics Command Headquarters to a place that lacks the resources, infrastructure, and facilities to support its mission.

Please e-mail the following content to the President’s website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

BRAC – Mr. President: The purpose of this e-mail is to solicit your support for our quest to end the waste of taxpayer dollars to transfer the Army’s Communications & Electronics Command Headquarters to a place that lacks the resources, infrastructure, and facilities to support its mission. Mr. President, we think the continued squandering of military funding on this wasteful enterprise is most unnecessary and foolhardy during these perilous economic times. We recommend you scrap all BRAC activity, particularly the move of Fort Monmouth civilian employees to Aberdeen Maryland. Also, we recommend you direct an honest accounting of the financials involved, which will substantiate the Fort Monmouth move is illogical from mission, expenditure, and morale perspectives. Lest we forget, America is at war! Now is not the time to lose the federal government’s civilian employee corporate knowledge base, Sir.