Kendra S. Horn: “the closure process is an attempt to be objective. By and large it has been objective. It is not a generally partisan…”

“the closure process is an attempt to be objective. By and large it has been objective. It is not a generally partisan process. However, it is an intense process within the services and between the services where there are very high partisan rivalries. In the case of the Navy, it is a matter of the air wing versus the surface fleet versus the underseas fleet. What happened in the case of the closure of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, the only shipyard that has ever returned, consistently, money to the Treasury; the most efficient one, if you listen to the former commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Captain Bowman, when he was on the 1993 Base Closure Commission. He said that everyone in the Navy knows that Long Beach has been 4 years ahead of every single yard, both in efficiency and effectiveness.”