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Calif., Maine Bases Added to Closure List
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by debwire | July 27, 2005 at 08:04 pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The base-closing commission voted Tuesday to add two military facilities, in California and Maine, to the list of hundreds of domestic bases that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has proposed closing and shrinking.
The Navy Broadway Complex in San Diego and the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine, were added to the list of facilities to be closed. The commission also was voting on whether to add bases in nine other states and Washington, D.C.
More: 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission
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