People, Not Paper.

The article reports that nobody is looking into the faces of those serving in the military as they parse in bloodless reports and pork-driven congressional hearings the base closing recommendations of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his Pentagon team. Thousands of other Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine wives will endure similar situations in the coming months as they learn how Washington's decisions about base closures and realignments will affect them. The U.S. Congress, in reviewing Rumsfeld's grand design, has paid dangerously little attention to what impact all the moving of military people from Europe, the Pacific and within the U.S.--along with support civilians--will have on the inclination of young people to join and stay in America's military.