Folks, our fine Government has failed our heroic Service men and women once again. Moreover, this is not just a failure – it is an INSULT!
If you will recall, The Bull has previously written about the military’s MWR facilities. (That’s “Morale, Well-Being, and Recreationâ€??) Particularly the Coast Guard’s facility on Dauphin Island, AL. You can fine my previous post on this subject here and here.
As stated before, these facilities were built as cheaply as possible many years ago. Yet they have provided low cost, (not free), recreation for our service personnel and their families for decades. Now that we are in what will be a generational conflict where our military is strained to the limit and facilities for recreation are at a premium the good ol’ Government has closed yet another one. The Dauphin Island Recreational Complex rather than spend a few thousand dollars – say, less than half the cost of one Tomahawk cruise missile – on plywood and cheap plumbing fixtures. Even with US Naval Construction Force, (the famed ‘SeaBees’), offering to volunteer their own time to rebuild for labor, the Government refused to make repairs and simply closed the place! 
Ye Gods! The STUPIDITY of it all!
But wait! There’s more!
What has the Government done with this beach front property? Nothing. Absolutely nothing! Some $100,000,000.00 (yes, 100 Million Dollars) worth of Gulf Coast beach front property now sits idle – save for the trash, liquor bottles, and needles being left by the drunks, drug addicts, and illegal aliens that are camping in and about the vacation homes that have been left completely unguarded!
Can you believe it? Sadly, The Bull can. I called this action an INSULT in my opening statement. It is not just an INSULT to our service personnel, but an INSULT to every tax paying citizen in the United States of America! Not to mention the danger that such an unguarded property, (and the undesirable elements living there now), presents to every citizen of Dauphin Island as well as every tourist that visits there. Being the property of the US Government, the City of Dauphin Island has very limited abilities to police the property.
What can you do?
Contact your U.S. Representatives and Senators. Call, write, and visit them personally. Not just those from Alabama, but in what ever State you live in. ‘We the People‘ owe to our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines a place where they can go, at a minimum cost to their families, to decompress from the stresses of service and spend quality time with their loved ones.
I will NOT let this go! Something must be done!
Bull, out!
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