That is obviously, looking back retrospectively, that the Department of Defense thought that this was all kind of just a sacrifice in the areas around these defense facilities, that the communities would have to pay in perpetuity for having a military base which was sited there. So obviously, that was just fundamentally wrong.
Markey criticizes the Department of Defense's past negligence regarding community impacts from military bases.
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