1995 Army Team Lead Desk Material - Adds to List Hearing, May 21, 1993 Page: 81 of 222
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DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE COMMISSION - OPEN MEETING:Friday, May 21, 1993Slide 3-L. Because of the complexity and
capability of large aircraft bases, the Air Force rated
these bases in at least one of four different areas based on
their primary mission. Those areas are airlift, armor,
tanker, and mobility. Before we leave this chart, i'm going
to call your attention, if I could, to five bases which werePage 688 of 880 Pages
I also evaluated as missile fields.
2 Those five, plus a sixth, Francis E. Warren Air
3 Force Base in Wyoming, currently house the country's land
4 based intercontinental ballistic missiles. Two fields,
5 Ellsworth and Whiteman, are no longer required for missiles,
6 but are bomber bases with high military value. Due to the
7 current status of the START ratification process, and in an
8 effort to maintain flexibility, the Secretary of the Air
JForce withdrew the remaining four missile bases, to include
10 Francis E. Warren, from further consideration.
11 The other three of those four missile bases are up
12 for discussion today in the large aircraft category. Those
13 bases are Malmstrom, Minot, and Grand Forks. This issue
14 could be a factor in your consideration.
15 If we can go to slide 4-L.
16 Continuing on with the large aircraft base
17 category, this chart shows those bases evaluated by the Air
18 Force as East Coast mobility bases. As a result of the
19 process, Plattsburgh Air Force Base was selected as the East
20 Coast mobility base, and Griffiss and McGuire were
21 recommended by DOD to the Commission for realignment.
22 You can go to slide 5-L now.Page 689 of 880 Pages
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actively put it on a review list. And it's something that
deserves our open discussion.
I have spoken to various people about it. I spoke
to our attorney about it. And, although arguments can be
made that unless there is very strong, compelling arguments
and exceptions, that once a decision has been made by a
prior Commission, there is a desire for finality. And that,
I think, is an important rule, that we don't revisit everyDiversified Reporting Services, Inc. - (20?) ?9R-7Q74
In this chart, your consideration is to study
Plattsburgh for closure, with the potential to select
McGuire or Griffiss as the East Coast mobility base. The
chart reflects the Air Force and staff evaluations to date,
as well as currently identified major issues related to
evaluating these bases as the East Coast mobility base.
As I noted before, both McGuire and Griffiss were
recommended to the Commission for realignment. If you'll
refer to the Air Force grouping row in the slide on your
right, which is 5-R, you can better see the --
CHAIRMAN COURTIER: Frank, before you go into 5-R,
I just want to alert the commissioners that what I would
like before we leave this category and during the discussion
of the category is that we have a discussion with regard to
Loring Air Force Base in Maine. And the reason I say that
is because there is a community concern there and the
concern of the elected representatives that Loring was
disposed of in 1991, based on a different type of mission.
And with the emergence of the air mobility command
and a composite wing in airlift and tankers, the community
would like us to consider whether we should review Loring,
with the idea, as far as the community is concerned, toQ nn 1)n -c -)MI n_ -
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