Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has proposed opening two miles of waterfront property on the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan for public recreational use, such as fishing, hiking, and biking. The Detroit Free Press reports that Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, proposed the move in a letter to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. Air Guard officials told the newspaper that they are “definitely giving it a look.” It would be land that the Air Guard no longer needs for military purposes.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…