“The DoD’s base closure criteria are out of touch with reality and threaten the military readiness of the country,” Senator Boxer said. “The DoD does not rule out the mothballing of military bases which is a waste of military assets and could cause huge economic downturns; the DoD does not take into account the prior four rounds of base closures that disproportionately affected certain regions and they pay no attention to the surrounding intellectual infrastructure that is so necessary to our national security. I will work with my California colleagues at the state and federal level to fight for our state’s critical military installations.”