‘Yesterday’s facilities,’ unstable workforce among base commanders’ worries

BALTIMORE—Some military bases and installations are hundreds of years old, badly in need of maintenance or perhaps simply retirement. Others lack power and water that could be relied upon in wartime, or broadband and other digital infrastructure to meet today’s needs.“Essentially, we’re fighting tomorrow’s wars with yesterday’s facilities, and we need to fix that,” Brig. Gen. Andrew W. Collins, assistant adjutant general of the Maryland Army National Gua