[MilCom] BRAC: Ellsworth & Cannon Dodge Bullet

[Rolf Kappe]

Steve Douglass wrote:
> BRAC Commission  recommends Ellsworth and Cannon AFB to remain open.
> 
> Ellswoth B-1s will stay put and Cannon will stay open as an AIir Force 
> "enclave" losing its 27th Fighter Wing (and operating at a diminished 
> capacity) until the Air Force can find a new mission aircraft to be 
> based at Cannon.  The Air Force has until 2009 to decide what it wants 
> to base at Cannon or it will be closed. F-16s from the NMANG will still 
> be based at Cannon.


The F-16s of the New Mexico ANG are based at Kirtland AFB in 
Albuquerque, and I don't think there is any plan to move them.
--Rolf