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My 2005 BRAt Cm lsbn
BRAC Commssioa 06/17/2005
Washington DC.
c/o NIMAC
P.O. Box 231
Niagars Falls, NY 143044-0231
Dear Chairman Pridcipi and BRAG C commissioners:
I a deeply troubled by the Defense Department's recommendation to close the Niagara
Falls Air Force Reserve Base. This recommendation is a terrible mistake and I urge the
BRAC Commission reverse this decision and remove the Niagara Falls Base from the Fist.
It Is hard to understand why the Air Force bas decided to take planes, missions, and Jobs
away from so many Air Guard and Air Reserve bases and put them on more costly Active
Duty bases. Of all the bases to pick to close, how do you close the base whose unit helped
rescue Jessica Lynch in Iraq because they are the lead night vision C-130 unit fn the
Reserves? You must also recognize:
The federal government has invested more than $35 million in Niagara Falls since
1995 In new facilities.,
* BaseOperadons Support costs have been reduced more than 33% (to include a 25%
'reduction i utilities) to make the base one of the most cost-efficient facilities in the
Air Force Reserve Command.
SClosure of the base eliminates the ability to recruit and retain New Yorkers in a
region in which the units have both maintained in excess of 100% manning rates.
Niagara Falls eisting inastrcture can accommodate eight (8) additional C-130H
model aircraft without any military construction.
* Niagara Falls faces no physical encroachmet nor air traffi control constraints and
has acreage on the base and adjacent to the Installaton for expansion. ,
A urge the Commi.sfon in the strongest possible terms to remove Niagara Falls AFB from
the Pentagon's recommended list of base closures and to stop the continuing retreat of the
military from our region of the country.
Sincerely,
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