Dumbassery from DOD

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 OGDEN, Utah

The Pentagon calls Hill Air Force Base in northern Utah most at risk for negative impacts from climate change among 79 vital military installations in the United States.

The Salt Lake Tribune and the Standard-Examiner report that a document provided by the Defense Department to members of Congress provided rankings of 79 Air Force, Army and Navy bases considered mission-critical.

It said the most endangered Navy base was Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, and that the most endangered Army base is Fort Hood in Texas.

The bases were evaluated for potential for wildfire, flooding, drought, desertification and thawing permafrost. Hill had no potential for thawing permafrost but was rated high in other categories.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article228929644.html

(Nice to know Utah has no potential for thawing permafrost. Probably the same with Key West and Fort Hood, but with DOD toeing the PC line these days, feel-good bean-counters might find some permafrost.

(DOD says Fort Hood is listed because of (one has to assume) climate change-induced wildfires, flooding, drought and desertification.

(Hey, DOD. Here’s a fact: Fort Hood has wildfires several times a year. Same with flooding, especially flash floods. And strangely, every time Central Texas has a drought, so does Fort Hood.

(Wildfires generally start on ranges, with HE tank and artillery impact, and small arms ranges, where tracers are sometimes used. Dry grass and splody stuff makes fires. Several times every summer.

(I guess the report makes somebody happy. After all, no paper, no credit.)