1988 The
1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included: •
Alabama Army Ammunition Plant •
Army Materials Technology Laboratory •
Army Reserve Center Gaithersburg •
Bennett Army National Guard Facility •
Cameron Station •
Cape St. George •
Chanute Air Force Base •
Coosa River Storage Annex •
Defense Mapping Agency site Herndon, Virginia • Former Nike Site at the
Aberdeen Proving Ground •
Fort Bliss (realigned) •
Fort Des Moines •
Fort Detrick (realigned) •
Fort Dix (realigned as
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) •
Fort Douglas •
Fort Holabird • Fort Meade (realigned) •
Fort Monmouth •
Fort Sheridan •
Fort Wingate Ammunition Storage Depot •
Fort Wingate •
George Air Force Base •
Hamilton Army Airfield •
Indiana Army Ammunition Plant •
Irwin Support Detachment Annex •
Jefferson Proving Ground •
Kapalama Military Reservation Phase III •
Lexington Army Depot •
Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot •
Mather Air Force Base •
Navajo Depot Activity (turned over to the
Arizona Army National Guard) •
Naval Hospital Philadelphia •
Naval Reserve Center Coconut Grove •
Naval Station Galveston •
Naval Station Lake Charles •
Naval Station New York •
Naval Station Puget Sound •
Naval Station San Francisco (realigned) •
New Orleans Military Ocean Terminal •
Nike Washington-Baltimore •
Norton Air Force Base •
Pease Air Force Base (realigned as
Pease Air National Guard Base) •
Pontiac Storage Facility •
Presidio of San Francisco •
Pueblo Army Depot (realigned) •
Salton Sea Test Base •
St. Louis Area Support Center Wherry housing •
Tacony Warehouse •
Umatilla Army Depot (realigned)
1990 In 1990, the
Navy considered cutting 34 military installations. In accordance with Pub. L. 101-510, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommended the closure of Military Ocean Terminal, Bayonne, New Jersey, and the Oakland Army Base, California, and relocation of MTMC Western Area and MTMC Eastern Area Headquarters to a location to be determined by the Army. The U.S. Army selected Fort Eustis, Virginia, as the preliminary site. Fort Eutis would become the new home of MTMC CONUS Command.
1991 The
1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included: •
Anniston Army Depot (realigned) •
Camp Evans • Fort Wingate •
Griffiss Air Force Base •
Homestead Air Force Base (realigned as
Homestead Air Reserve Base) •
K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base •
March Air Force Base (realigned as
March Air Reserve Base) •
Mare Island Naval Shipyard •
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro •
Naval Air Station Agana •
Naval Air Station Alameda •
Naval Air Station Barbers Point •
Naval Air Station Cecil Field •
Naval Air Station Dallas (realigned as
Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex) •
Naval Air Station Glenview •
Naval Air Warfare Center Trenton •
Naval Aviation Depot Alameda •
Naval Aviation Depot Norfolk •
Naval Aviation Depot Pensacola •
Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Center, Saint Inigoes •
Naval Hospital Charleston •
Naval Hospital Oakland •
Naval Hospital Orlando •
Naval Reserve Center Gadsden •
Naval Reserve Center Montgomery •
Naval Station Argentia •
Naval Station Charleston •
Naval Station Mobile •
Naval Station Staten Island •
Naval Station Treasure Island •
Naval Supply Center, Oakland •
Naval Training Center Orlando •
Naval Training Center San Diego •
Newark Air Force Base •
O'Hare Air Reserve Station •
Plattsburgh Air Force Base •
Vint Hill Farms Station •
Williams Air Force Base 1995 The
1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission included: •
Camp Bonneville •
Castle Air Force Base •
Fitzsimons Army Medical Center •
Fort Chaffee (turned over to the
Arkansas National Guard) •
Fort Greely (realigned) •
Fort Indiantown Gap (turned over to the
Pennsylvania National Guard) •
Fort McClellan •
Fort Barfoot (turned over to the
Virginia National Guard) •
Fort Ritchie •
Kelly Air Force Base (realigned as Kelly Field) •
Letterkenny Army Depot •
McClellan Air Force Base •
Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne •
Naval Air Facility Adak •
Naval Air Station South Weymouth •
Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Warminster •
Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Indianapolis •
Naval Reserve Center Fayetteville •
Naval Reserve Center Fort Smith •
Naval Reserve Center Huntsville •
Naval Shipyard, Long Beach •
Naval Supply Center, Oakland •
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division •
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division •
Oakland Army Base •
Ontario Air National Guard Station •
Red River Army Depot •
Reese Air Force Base •
Roslyn Air National Guard Station •
Savanna Army Depot Activity •
Seneca Army Depot •
Ship Repair Facility, Guam •
Sierra Army Depot (realigned) •
Stratford Army Engine Plant 2005 The Pentagon released its proposed list for the
2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission on May 13, 2005 (a date given the moniker "BRAC Friday," a
pun on
Black Friday). After an extensive series of public hearings, analysis of DoD-supplied supporting data, and solicitation of comments from the public, the list of recommendations was revised by the 9-member Defense Base Closure and Realignments Commission in two days of public markups and votes on individual recommendations (the proceedings were broadcast by
C-SPAN and are available for review on the network's website). The Commission submitted its revised list to the President on September 8, 2005. The President approved the list and notified Congress on September 15. The
House of Representatives took up a joint resolution to disapprove the recommendations on October 26, but the resolution failed to pass. The recommendations were thereby enacted. The Secretary of Defense must implement the recommendations no later than September 15, 2011. Major facilities slated for closure included: •
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, renamed
Brooks City-Base after
San Antonio assumed control •
Defense Finance and Accounting Service, New York (removed from list 2005) •
Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota (removed from list August 26, 2005) •
Fort Gillem, Georgia •
Fort McPherson, Georgia • Fort Monmouth, New Jersey •
Fort Monroe, Virginia •
Kulis Air National Guard Base, Alaska •
Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine •
Naval Air Station Willow Grove Joint Reserve Base, Pennsylvania •
Naval Station Ingleside, Texas •
Naval Station Pascagoula, Mississippi •
Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut (removed from list August 24, 2005) •
Navy Supply Corps School •
Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts (removed from list August 26, 2005) •
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (removed from list August 26, 2005) Major facilities slated for realignment include: •
Army Human Resource Command (HRC), Missouri, moving to the
Fort Knox Military Installation in Kentucky •
Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico •
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska •
Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska •
Fort Belvoir, Virginia • Fort Meade, Maryland • Fort Novosel, Alabama, Aviation Technical Test Center moving to the
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and combining with the
Redstone Technical Test Center to form
U.S. Army Redstone Test Center •
Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota •
Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia (extent contingent on reopening the former
Naval Air Station Cecil Field in Florida) •
Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois •
Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina (transferred to the U.S. Army as Pope Army Airfield and merged with
Fort Bragg) •
Rome Laboratory, New York •
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Twenty-six bases were realigned into 12
joint bases, with each joint base's installation support being led by the
Army, the Air Force, or the Navy. An example is
Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington, combining
Fort Lewis and
McChord Air Force Base.
2015 The 2005 Commission recommended that Congress authorize another BRAC round in 2015 and every eight years thereafter. On May 10, 2012, the
House Armed Services Committee rejected calls by the Pentagon for base closures outside of a 2015 round by a 44 to 18 vote. Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta had called for two rounds of base closures while at the same time arguing that the alternative of the sequester would be a "meat-ax" approach to cuts which would "hollow out" military forces. The
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 specifically prohibits authorization of future BRAC rounds. In May 2014, it was attempted to fund another round of BRAC, although funding was not approved in a vote in May of that year. In March 2015, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment addressed the possibility of a future BRAC, indicating that the DOD, Defense Secretary
Ash Carter was requesting authority to conduct another BRAC. In September 2015, at the tenth anniversary of the end of the most recent BRAC commission report, its former chairman
Anthony Principi wrote, "Now is the time to do what's right for our men and women in uniform. Spending dollars on infrastructure that does not serve their needs is inexcusable." ==Appropriations==