[MilCom] Commission Votes to Add Two Bases to List

[Chris Corley]

July 19, 2005 1:47 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - The base-closing commission voted Tuesday to add two military
facilities, in California and Maine, to the list of hundreds of domestic
bases that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has proposed closing and
shrinking.

The Navy Broadway Complex in San Diego and the Naval Air Station in
Brunswick, Maine, were added to the list of facilities to be closed. The
commission also was voting on whether to add bases in nine other states and
Washington, D.C.

The San Diego facility has headquarters for Navy operations in the
Southwest, while the Brunswick air base is the last active-duty Defense
Department airfield in New England and one of Maine's largest employers,
with nearly 4,900 military and civilian workers.