SeaWoe > writes:

> How about the Marines giving the parts of Pendleton back to the
> state, which than sells it to developrers. with the money
> paying off the state debt. Thde Marines can then have the land along
> the Mexican border as far as AZ for desert trauning?
> (Amphib stuff done on the Silver Strand.)

Giving? In my experience, unused military bases are sold to the state
or local governments at or near current market value. That's true
even if the land was given to the military in the first place.

-- Patrick