I do know why they cleared out the navy depot................they were sitting on a billion dollars of harbourside land in Sydneys millionaires row..........politicians are always keen to get their grubby hands on money,and land developers are always generous with gifts to politicians.
In the early to mid 90's, the administration Devastated the Military, and had a garage sale with the depots, and lands. That's how they balanced the budget. Problem was it cost much more to replace what was sold, when we entered the next wars. WE went from 80+ plants producing ammunition before Desert Storm, to 12 on 9-11.
That says nothing about the other warehouses of supplies that were sold off, and needed to be re procured.
I did some work at Roosevelt Roads about 5 years ago (demo and remediation of underground fuel tanks) and was amazed at what tooling and infrastructure was left in place. Then again, we see it a lot at many of the other government facilities where we work....completely idle buildings with equipment just sitting in storage.
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