Proposed Base Closings

The official BRAC list has been released and Jeff Quinton is transcribing it from .pdf format. Below, I've transcribed the list for Ohio, divided into three groups.

TO CLOSE

Army National Guard Reserve Center - Mansfield

Army National Guard Reserve Center - Westerfield

Defense Finance and Accounting Service - Dayton

Mansfield Lahm Municipal Airport - Air Guard Station

Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center - Akron

Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center - Cleveland

Parrot U.S. Army Reserve Center - Kenton

U.S. Army Reserve Center - Whitehall

Leased Space - OH


TO GAIN

Armed Forces Reserve Center - Akron

Defense Supply Center - Columbus

Rickenbacker International Airport - Air Guard Center

Toledo Express Airport - Air Guard Center

Wright Patterson Air Force Base

Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport


TO REALIGN

Defense Finance and Accounting Service - Cleveland

Glenn Research Center

Rickenbacker Army National Guard Bldg 943 - Columbus

Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport - Air Guard Station

After reviewing the entire list, it's notable that the Pentagon is closing finance and accounting facilities throughout the nation in an obvious consolidation effort. It also appears that an across-the-board reduction in satellite reserve centers, affecting almost every state, is planned. As an example, six of nine closures announced for Ohio are reserve centers.

One proposed closure I thought was quite interesting was the Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut. Personally, I was taken aback, thinking the place had more value.

For the entire list in .pdf, go here. In HTML, it's at the Backcountry Conservative.