[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Planes Ready to Leave Brunswick, Maine Navy Base

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Times
November 20, 2009

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying 
overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions 
depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.

While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 
are prepping to ship out for a six-month deployment to El Salvador, 
Italy and the Horn of Africa. After that, they'll rejoin the rest of 
Brunswick aircraft that have relocated to Florida's Jacksonville Naval 
Air Station.

Cmdr. Mike Parker, commanding officer of VP-26, begins the final wave of 
departures on Sunday, marking a milestone in the closing of the last 
active-duty military air base in New England.

"It's a heartbreaking situation to leave the base knowing that no P-3 is 
going to return to this base," said Parker. His massive three-bay hangar 
was filled with equipment being loaded on pallets and sailors getting 
heavy gear ready to be shipped out starting next week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/20/us/AP-US-Base-Closing-Last-Flights.html

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Lenny Siegel
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