Why did the Pentagon decide to dose 33 military bases?

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered the news Friday that everyone here had been fearing: the Pentagon’ s recommendation that Fort Monmouth be dosed along with 32 other major installations as part of a plan m save billions of dollars and make the military more modem.
   The reaction to the announcement by the communities affected---from New Jersey to California, Wisconsin to Texas--was first disappointment, then determination to fight for their livelihoods.
    Fort Monmouth is the home of the Army’ s Communications and Electronics Command. The installation contributes $ 3 billion to the local and state economies; its dosing would put about 6,000 people out of work, deal a blow to area businesses and close the book on a base that’s been part of the community since 1917.