[CPEO-IRF] Additions to proposed closure list

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Panel Makes Additions to Base-Closure List

By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle
July 19, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The base-closing commission voted Tuesday to add a 
handful of military facilities in eight states and the nation's capital 
to the hundreds that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wants to close 
or shrink.

The Navy Broadway Complex in San Diego and the Naval Air Station in 
Brunswick, Maine, now are on the list of installations to be closed. 
Under the commission's actions, the Naval Master Jet Base at the Naval 
Air Station Oceana in Virginia and Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina 
would see even more force reductions than the Pentagon proposed or would 
be shut down.

Even small facilities were not immune. With an eye on possibly merging 
administrative, education and medical services, the commission voted to 
include several small installations in Colorado, Ohio, Indiana, 
California, Virginia and Washington, D.C., for consideration.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/19/national/w152240D98.DTL


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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