1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
The preliminary 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission list was released by the United States Department of Defense in 1991 as part of the ongoing Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The list recommended closing 28 major United States military bases throughout the nation. This was the last Base Realignment and Closure Commission prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union ending the Cold War.
Commissioners[]
James A. Courter, Chairman; William L. Ball, III; Robert D. Stuart, Jr.; James C. Smith, II, P.E.; Arthur Levitt, Jr.; Howard H. Callaway; General Duane H. Cassidy, USAF (Ret.)
Justification[]
The commission was established to review the Defense Secretary's list of bases submitted to Congress on April 12, 1991. The seven commissioners and their staff held 28 hearings across the country, visited 47 military installations, and met hundreds of representatives of the surrounding communities. Base closures are politically sensitive issues often resulting in a major economic loss for the surrounding area. Analysts from the General Accounting Office, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the Logistics Management Institute, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency worked closely with the commission.
Recommendations[]
Facilities slated for closure/realignment/redirection included:[1]
- (Realign)
- Army Materials Technology Laboratory (Realign)
- (Realign)
- (Realign)
- Beale Air Force Base (Realign)
- (Realign)
- Bergstrom Air Force Base
- Carswell Air Force Base
- Castle Air Force Base
- David Taylor Research Center Detachment Annapolis (Realign)
- Directed Energy and Sensors and Basic and Applied Research Element of the (Realign)
- Eaker Air Force Base
- (Realign)
- England Air Force Base
- (Realign)
- Fort Benjamin Harrison
- Fort Chaffee
- Fort Devens
- Fort Dix (Realign)
- Fort Ord
- Fort Polk (Realign)
- Fuze Development and Production (armament and missile-related) Harry Diamond Laboratories (Realign)
- Goodfellow Air Force Base (Realign)
- Grissom Air Force Base
- Harry Diamond Laboratory
- (Disestablish)
- Loring Air Force Base
- Lowry Air Force Base
- MacDill Air Force Base (Realign)
- March Air Force Base (Realign)
- Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
- Mather Air Force Base (Redirect)
- Mountain Home Air Force Base (Realign)
- Myrtle Beach Air Force Base
- (Realign)
- Naval Air Facility Midway Island
- (Realign)
- Naval Air Station Chase Field
- Naval Air Station Moffett Field
- Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster (Realign)
- (Realign)
- (Realign)
- Naval Ocean Systems Center Detachment Kaneohe
- (Realign)
- Naval Ordnance Station Louisville (Realign)
- (Norfolk)
- Naval Station Long Beach
- Naval Station Philadelphia
- Naval Station Puget Sound
- (Realign)
- (Realign)
- Naval Undersea Warfare Center Detachment, Cambridge
- 'Reference Lists' section.
- Naval Underwater Systems Center Detachment New London
- (Realign)
- Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility
- (Realign)
- Philadelphia Naval Yard
- Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station
- Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base
- Sacramento Army Depot
- (Disestablish)
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Microwave Bioeffects Research)
- Williams Air Force Base
- Wurtsmith Air Force Base
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "BASE CLOSURES AND REALIGNMENTS BY STATE: 1995, 1993, 1991, AND 1988" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
External links[]
- 1991 Base Closure and Realignment Report Archived 2015-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
- "Military Bases: An Analysis of the Commission's Realignment and Closure Recommendations" (PDF). U.S. GAO:Office of Public Affairs. U.S. Government Accountability Office. November 29, 1989. OCLC 20947831.
- "Military Bases: Response to Questions on the Realignment of Forts Devens and Huachuca" (PDF). U.S. GAO:Office of Public Affairs. U.S. Government Accountability Office. August 7, 1990. OCLC 26833457.
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