1.   Cutting troops to loosen that money could signal another round of base closures, said B..

2.   Plan also recommends more base closures.

3.   Thousands of workers have been dislocated by recent military base closures.

4.   And he said Myers has personally told him that he supports some level of troop reductions and base closures.

5.   And that means Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base is likely to be as immune from future base closures as any base can be.

6.   Any new round of base closures, however, would need the approval of Congress to create a base closing commission.

7.   As a key deadline in the base closure process approaches, Maine advocates for the Kittery-Portsmouth naval base are hard at work.

8.   As recently as December, key lawmakers were cool to the idea of more base closures.

9.   Base closures have been a highly politicized issue since Congress created the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, and both sides in the debate Wednesday focused on that fact.

10.   Blame it on the hot economy or the end of the Cold War, budget cuts or base closures.