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- Strategies for the Futenma base will send US troops to Guam Talmadge, 6/22/10
- The DoD is conducting base realignment from Okinawa to Guam Schmitt, ‘8
- Pressure from DOD key to allocate resources for redeployment ENR 09
- Only the DoD can facilitate inter-agency cooperation GAO, 4.9
- Put away your disads- Japan won’t back out of realignment- the only question is infrastructure Day, ‘9
Yes GuamOnce the US leaves the Futenma base, Japan will fund sending 8,000 US marines to Guam Sydney Morning Harold, 6/5/10 (“Obama Policy Sees a PM resign, but Japan’s resentment will stay,” pg online @ http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/obama-policy-sees-a-pm-resign-but-japans-resentment-will-stay-20100604-xkj1.html //ag) Barack Obama has just shown he can kick ass in foreign policy, bringing down the first allied leader who tried to stand up against Washington pressure since the president took office. But it's been like killing a mockingbird. Yukio Hatoyama's resignation this week as Japan's prime minister is in large part due to the freeze-out by Washington over his government's attempt to get Japan out of an unpopular agreement to relocate a US Marine Corps base in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa. Under a deal signed in 2006 with one of the rotating prime ministers in the dying years of the long reign of Japan's pro-American conservatives, the base at Futenma was to be shut down, some 8000 marines moved to new barracks in Guam paid for by Japan, and their aircraft moved to a new airfield on reclaimed coastal land at Henoko, in the north of Okinawa's main island.
(Eric, Tokyo bureau chief of the Associated Press. His articles on bathing in Japan have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post. He has been a resident of Japan since he was 19 years old, “US-Japan security alliance strained by base decision, other pressures on its 50th anniversary,” The Washington Examiner, pg online @ http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/us-japan-security-alliance-strained-by-base-decision-other-pressures-on-its-50th-anniversary-96862119.html#ixzz0rhU4mK4P //ag) But while the alliance is one of the strongest Washington has anywhere in the world, it has come under intense pressure lately over a plan to make sweeping reforms that would pull back roughly 8,600 Marines from Okinawa to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. The move was conceived in response to opposition on Okinawa to the large U.S. military presence there — more than half of the U.S. troops in Japan are on Okinawa, which was one of the bloodiest battlefields of World War II. Though welcomed by many at first, the relocation plan has led to renewed Okinawan protests over the U.S. insistence it cannot be carried out unless a new base is built on Okinawa to replace one that has been set for closing for more than a decade. The DoD is conducting base realignment from Okinawa to Guam Schmitt, ‘8 (5/30/08, Eric, New York Times, “Secretary Gates Visits Guam Military Base,” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/asia/31guam.html?ref=asia) Over the next six years, the Pentagon is planning to spend $15 billion to upgrade and expand World War II-era air bases, barracks and ports, and carve out of the jungle new housing and headquarters to accommodate thousands of additional troops and their families who are scheduled to arrive. It is all part of the military’s effort to remake Guam into a strategic hub in the western Pacific, underscoring both the increasing geopolitical importance of Asia to Washington as well as the Pentagon’s priority to project power from American territory rather than foreign bases. Mr. Gates made Guam his first stop on a weeklong trip to Asia, his fourth to the region since becoming defense secretary 17 months ago. He will also attend a regional security conference in Singapore, and confer with defense officials in Thailand and South Korea. An underlying theme of the trip, Mr. Gates said, will be “affirming that the United States is not distracted by our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from our long-term interests here in Asia.” With American officials warily watching China’s military buildup as well as the continuing standoff with North Korea over its nuclear program, the massive construction projects already underway and on the drawing board here are striking. The military owns about one-third of this island, and much of the remaining jungle will be bulldozed to build military headquarters, housing, hospitals, schools and commissaries, officials said. By 2014, some 8,000 marines are expected to move here from their long-time base in Okinawa, requiring a new headquarters, housing and a small-arms training range. The Japanese government is paying $6 billion to help defray costs of the move and the new constructions here, said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. Japanese defense forces will train and conduct exercises with American troops here, said Mr. Morrell, in a historical twist of fate. Three days after the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan’s occupation of this American island started and continued until United States soldiers returned to Guam on July 21, 1944, a date celebrated here as Liberation Day. Pressure from DOD key to allocate resources for redeployment ENR 09 ("Guam Needs More U.S. Funds To Redeploy Military, Says GAO",Engineering News-Record, Pg. 14, April 27, 2009) GAO says that the U.S. Defense Dept. is funding infrastructure costs on Guam «directly related» to the movement of 17,000 U.S. Marines and dependents from the island of Okinawa and from other locations, as well as providing «some funds toward civilian infrastructure.» But the Guam government must fund «civilian requirements related to the buildup,» GAO says. Island officials already have told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that they would request at least $6.1 billion for fiscal 2010 to fund infrastructure work. According to GAO, Guam’s wastewater treatment plants are operating at near capacity and face a 25% demand increase, while its electric grid is «inadequate.» GAO contends that while a federal governmentwide working group coordinates Guam funding needs, it does not have authority to direct agency budget allocations. GAO says only pressure from top DOD officials «can marshal the resources from member agencies» needed to meet Guam’s infrastructure needs. GAO says construction on Guam could start in fiscal 2010 to meet the projected 2014 deadline for troop movements, but military and industry sources speculate that overall funding issues in the U.S. and in Japan, which is also set to fund redeployment, could push that date back. There also are delays in completing required environmental reviews. DOD Deputy Undersecretary Wayne Army concurs with the report but says the time allowed for its review was «compressed.» According to Guam Congresswoman Madeline Bordallo, DOD’s concurrence with the GAO report’s conclusion is «significant.» Only the DoD can facilitate inter-agency cooperation GAO, 4.9 (Government Accountability Office, “High-Level Leadership Needed to Help Guam Address Challenges Caused by DOD-Related Growth,” http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:QrXiFTk_hgsJ:www.gao.gov/new.items/d09500r.pdf+the+agency+for+human+resource+development%2Bguam%2Bmilitary&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a) The IGIA has made some efforts at federal collaboration; however, it will be unable to affect interagency budgets to help ensure that the realignment of military forces on Guam will be completed by the fiscal year 2014 completion date because it does not have the authority to direct other federal agencies’ budget or other resource decisions. However, based on a series of executive orders dating back to 1978, it has been long-standing DOD policy that DOD take the leadership role within the federal government in helping communities respond to the effects of defense-related activities.5 The current version of the executive order, Executive Order 12788,establishes an Economic Adjustment Committee made up of 22 federal departments and agencies, including the Department of the Interior, and requires the committee to, among other duties, advise, assist, and support the Defense Economic Adjustment Program. This program is to assist substantially and seriously affected communities from the effects of major defense closures and realignments. Moreover, the program is also to serve as a clearinghouse to exchangeinformation among federal, state and community officials involved in the resolution ofcommunity economic adjustment problems, including identifying sources of public and privatefinancing to meet identified needs. While DOD, through the Economic Adjustment Committee, does not have the authority to direct member executive agencies’ budget or other resource decisions, Executive Order 12788 does specify that all executive agencies are to give priority consideration to requests from defense-affected communities for financial resources and other assistance. However, as we previously reported, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has notprovided the high-level leadership on the Economic Advisory Committee that is necessary tohelp ensure interagency and intergovernmental coordination at levels that can make policy andbudgetary decisions to better leverage resources through the committee. Although other federal assistance has been provided to Guam from organizations such as the Navy’s Joint Guam Program Office and Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, these organizations do not have the authority to direct other federal agencies to provide resources to defense-affected communities or ensure that Guam’s budget requests related to the military buildup become a priority across the federal government. Only high-level leadership from the Secretary of Defense can marshal the resources of the Economic Adjustment Committee’s member agencies, and only high-level federal officials from these agencies can affect possible policy and budget decisions that may be required to better assist the communities. Therefore, we are making a recommendation that DOD continue to implement our previous recommendation to provide the high-level leadership necessary to promote interagency coordination, as well as requiring that the EconomicAdjustment Committee includes Guam’s needs in its routine activities supporting defense-affected communities for the military buildup on Guam. Put away your disads- Japan won’t back out of realignment- the only question is infrastructure Day, ‘9 (10/22/09, Jonathan, Xinhua General News Service, “News Analysis: Pentagon takes tough stance on new Japanese diplomacy”, Lexis) U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates, the first U.S. Cabinet member to visit Japan since the new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government took office, left two days of security meetings with senior Japanese officials on Tuesday and Wednesday adamant that bilateral security arrangements between the two countries should remain in place. The two-day trip by the Pentagon's number one was to lay the groundwork for U.S. President Barack Obama's planned visit to Japan on Nov. 12 and 13, during which time the President is expected to show that Washington values the importance of its relationship with Japan's newly formed government. However Gates' unwavering stance on the DPJ's interest in re- examining the 2006 U.S.-Japan Roadmap for Realignment and Implementation, which outlines a wholesale strategic repositioning of U.S. forces in Okinawa, may have quashed the Japanese government's hopes of reaching an alternative agreement and, perhaps more significantly, given the Japanese premier some pause over his party's hopes for more "equal Japan-U.S. ties" and his pledge to steer the nation on a diplomatic course less dependent on security alliances with the U.S. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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