Propaganda for Base closings already started: Check this DOD article....

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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/20050314_176.html

BRAC Turned Out to Be Good News For Texas Capital
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service


AUSTIN, Texas, March 14, 2005 – Though the fear of losing jobs and revenue grips nearby cities and towns when the Defense Department decides to close a military installation, the bad news can be made good.

Bergstrom Air Force Base was closed and turned over the city of Austin, Texas, in 1993. The city soon converted the base into a civilian airport. The Bergstrom-Austin International Airport, as it was named after its conversion, opened for service in 1999, and now has 25 gates and serves 7.2 million passengers each year. Courtesy photo

Such was the case when Bergstrom Air Force Base here closed in 1993, its fate sealed by the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure process.

Jim Halbrook, public information officer with Austin’s department of aviation, was part of a transition team looking into how to make the Air Force base a viable asset for the city. The view then, he said, was “instead of this being bad news, lets make this an opportunity.”

“To use a cliché,” he said, “how can we turn lemons into lemonade?”

Bergstrom was home to two Air Force Reserve units, the 924th Fighter Wing and Headquarters 10th Air Force. It also was home base for the 67th Reconnaissance Wing of what was then the Air Force’s Tactical Air Command.

The 924th would remain at the airfield, but 10th Air Force moved to Naval Air Station Fort Worth. The 67th emerged from the closure as the 67th Intelligence Wing at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas.

According to DoD projections in 1993, expenditures at Bergstrom were about $17.8 million a year, and closing the base would cut costs by as much as $75.2 million between 1996 and 2001.

“The initial reaction was ‘Oh no, our local Air Force base is closing,’” said Halbrook. However, shortly after the base was put on the list for closure, he said, the city became “proactive.”

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1. but we're saving 2 billion a year

that's less than we lost in Iraq

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2. Where is a list of all the bases? I can't find one. n/t