[MilCom] CANNON SPECIAL OPS

[Steve Douglass]

Special Operations coming to Cannon

Cannon Air Force Base will stay open as home to a Special Operations 
mission, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., announced in a conference call 
this morning.

Domenici said Cannon could become a "full special operations base" 
within the next two years.

The federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission last August 
accepted the Pentagon's recommendation to send Cannon's three F-16 
fighter squadrons elsewhere - but stopped short of closing the 
eastern New Mexico base.

Instead, the commission voted to make Cannon an enclave, keeping it 
open in a much-reduced form while the Department of Defense looked 
for another mission for it.

An Air Force team began evaluating Cannon's facilities last November 
to help the Defense Department decide what the base might become. 
Earlier the same month, Congress approved language that ensured 
construction projects continued while the new mission was sought.
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