On July 19, the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted to add several military installations to a list for closure or realignment and exclude three from the list. BRAC Commission chairman Anthony Principi said that the nine-person commission would not submit a complete list of bases affected by this round of BRAC until late August. The panel is obligated to send its recommendations to the president by Sept. 8. The president has until Sept. 23 to accept all recommendations or reject them all. Congress will have 45 days to accept the president’s recommendations or reject them in their entirety. The Defense Department will be obligated to act on all congressionally approved recommendations. Voted for exclusion from the list were Moody AFB, Ga., the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, and the Naval Shipyard in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Added to the list were:
Pope AFB;
Galena Airport Forward Operating Location, Alaska;
Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio;
Air Force Medical Command at Bolling AFB, D.C;
Defense Finance and Accounting Service facilities at Buckley Annex, Colo.; Columbus, Ohio; and Indianapolis;
Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif;
Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine;
Navy Broadway Complex, San Diego;
Naval Master Jet Base at NAS Oceana, Va;
Bureau of Navy Medicine at Potomac Annex, Washington, D.C; and
Tricare Management Activity, Office of the Surgeons General Military Departments, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, all in Virginia.