When former NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark was running for President there wasn’t a whole lot of agreement that the Chief had with his stance on the issues.
This concept on the other hand, is one that makes a fair amount of sense, and, independent of the strictly utilitarian military analysis of the BRAC process, introduces what is arguably a very significant social utility to have a somewhat more dispersed force structure, albeit at some additional cost factor.
It may well be worth paying the cost difference in this case.