Love that trailer park logic, it's a white trash world.
That real estate bubble comment earlier was right on. Oceana is the largest employer in Va. Beach. That would be a sweet reality check. Close Oceana, watch your property values realign with reality. It's like Abilene, Oklahoma in the late 1800's. Tired of Texas cowboys stirring up trouble in their town, a group of land speculators, buisnessmen and citizens wrote petitions and banned them. A year later, as the cities economy imploded, they begged the Texans to return with their cattle, but Texas said no thanks chumps. Gotta take the "bad" with the good.
I still vote for buying Cecil back. That was the stupidist thing ever done (thanks Senetor John Warner). Cecil was/is a great field. It was also a "Master Jet Base" like Oceana. Its got better runways/dual splits with one 12,000'. It is also out in the middle of nowhere and has a great OLF 7 miles north which provided great night FCLP training. It was a political power play to close it and keep Oceana. But now that it is water under the bridge, and Cecil will likely not be an option, might as well keep Oceana open and stick it to the local gripers.