Comments on: Official Military Base Closure List

By: Mike Dean

Mike Dean — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:04:33 +0000

I'm surprised that Portsmouth Shipyard ME/NH isn't in bold type. This is the nations oldest continuously operating shipyard and one of the largest. It will have a very large impact on both the military and the civilian community.

By: Daily Pundit

Daily Pundit — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:16:49 +0000

Duck - Incoming!
Here is the Pentagon List of Recommended Base Closings. UPDATE: James Joyner has some useful commentary....

By: Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:07:36 +0000

What BRAC means for the Navy
As Outside the Beltway (and plenty of others) noted.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:23:51 +0000

My old hometown is probably breathing a small sigh of relief that the list including Beale AFB was inaccurate. On the one hand, there had been four AFBs within 100 miles of Sacramento when I was growing up, which is clearly too many. On the other hand, the two actually in the immediate Sacramento area have already been closed, along with the Army Depot.

Fort Richardson, outside of Anchorage, would not have surprised me if it were on the official list, but (1) Alaska already lost one Army installation in the last round, and (2) Ted Stevens is, I believe, still chairman of Senate Appropriations* -- and you don't piss off a guy with that much clout.

*At the very least, he's an extremely senior Senator whom a whole lot of his colleagues owe favors.

By: Charles Fenwick

Charles Fenwick — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:10:32 +0000

Regarding the lack of major bases being closed...

The rounds of cuts in the 90's established bases that are 'unclosable' (short of dramatic mililtary cutbacks). For example, Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Air Station Oceana (fighter base), Naval Training Center Great Lakes, etc. I suspect the other services were in the same situation. This round of cuts reinforces the situation.

By: Signifying Nothing

Signifying Nothing — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:37:01 +0000

BRAC list not as bad as anticipated
James Joyner and Jeff Quinton have links to the real BRAC list, which wasn't quite as sweeping as anticipated here. The only meaningful casualty in Mississippi is NS Pascagoula, which co-blogger Robert Prather points out is little more than a...

By: Cadillac Tight

Cadillac Tight — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:10:55 +0000

Georgia bases on final BRAC list
Well, here they are:

Fort Gillem

Fort McPherson

Inspector/Instructor, Rome

Naval Air Station Atlanta

Naval Supply Corps School, Athens

U.S. Army Reserve Center, Columbus

If our reprentatives and Governor Perdue can't save Fort McP...

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:47:07 +0000

Navy Reserve Center, Lubbock.

Okay, I think it's pretty safe to close that one. :-)

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:46:36 +0000

S.C. base closings: not so much
James Joyner has the entire list of proposed military base closings, and South Carolina dodged the bullet, so to speak. Only two installations are slated for closure in the Palmetto state - Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Charleston and
South ...