[CPEO-MEF] Kelly AFB Comeback

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A KELLY COMEBACK: No 'Taps' for base as a recovery plan takes hold

By Gene Rector
Macon Telegraph (GA)
December 15, 2004


SAN ANTONIO - When the BRAC commission selected Kelly Air Force Base for
closure in 1995, the San Antonio media said the news struck like the
sharp crack of "Reveille" on a quiet morning.

The Air Force's oldest, continuously active installation - with roots
back to 1916 - was to be history in six years, along with 20,000 jobs
and about $2.5 billion in economic impact.

Kelly was one of two Air Force depots trimmed during the 1995 BRAC. The
other was in Sacramento, Calif. Both were similar in size and scope to
the depot complex at Robins Air Force Base.

The BRAC decision closed the logistics center at Kelly and realigned
other parts of the base. Robins, along with depots in Utah and Oklahoma,
dodged the closure bullet that year and now comprise the Air Force's
three remaining logistics centers as BRAC 2005 approaches.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/states/georgia/counties/houston_peach/10418436.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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