NAS Brunswick added tot he base closure list

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

Before voting on additions, Chairman Anthony Principi cautioned that adding a base to the list "does not necessarily mean that the base will be realigned or closed" but will simply allow the panel to further analyze those bases' usefulness.

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[maveric]

1. They're closing Navy Broadway? OMG!

Thats an important operation center and has been for over 70 years.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Brunswick has a job to do too, and I think they are weakening our

defenses by getting rid of it. Now planes that are keeping track of the artic route are going to have to come from much further south.