The 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the

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in 1988 as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. It recommended closing 17 major

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Commissioners

The commission was made up of the following members: *Chairmen ** Jack Edwards **

Abraham A. Ribicoff Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th ...

*Members ** Louis W. Cabot ** W. Graham Claytor, Jr. ** Donald F. Craib, Jr. **

Thomas F. Eagleton Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer serving as a United States senator from Missouri, from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He ...

** Martin R. Hoffmann ** Bryce Poe II ** William H. Rowden ** James C. Smith ** Donni A. Starry ** Russell E. Train

Justifications

Recommendations

Facilities slated for closure/realignment/redirection included: *

Alabama Army Ammunition Plant The Alabama Army Ammunition Plant (ALAAP), was a United States munitions plant built and operated during World War II. The facility is located four miles (6 km) north of Childersburg, Alabama in Talladega County, Alabama. History The ALAA ...

Army Materials Technology Laboratory An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

* Army Reserve Center Gaithersburg *

Bennett Army National Guard Facility The Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range (LBGR) was a World War II and Cold War facility that included 4 of the 6 HGM-25A Titan I missile launch complexes southeast of Denver, Colorado. Army Air Force range The area of the Lowry range was initially pa ...

* Cameron Station * Cape St. George * Chanute Air Force Base * Coosa River Storage Annex *Coraopolis Family Housing Site 71 *Coraopolis Family Housing Site 72 *

Defense Mapping Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national ...

site Herndon, Virginia *Dry Hill Family Housing *Family Housing Ansonia 04 *Family Housing Bedford 85 *Family Housing Beverly 15 *Family Housing Burlington 84 *Family Housing Davisville *Family Housing East Windsor 08 *Family Housing Fairfield 65 *Family Housing Hull 36 *Family Housing Manchester 25 *Family Housing Middletown 48 *Family Housing Milford 17 *Family Housing Nahant 17 *Family Housing New Britain 74 *Family Housing North Smithfield 99 *Family Housing Orange 15 *Family Housing Plainville 67 *Family Housing Portland 36 *Family Housing Randolph 55 *Family Housing Shelton 74 *Family Housing Swansea 29 *Family Housing Topsfield 05 *Family Housing Wakefield 03 *Family Housing Westport 73 *Former Nike Site at the

Aberdeen Proving Ground Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) (sometimes erroneously called Aberdeen Proving ''Grounds'') is a U.S. Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland, United States. More than 7,500 civilians and 5,000 military personnel work at ...

Fort Bliss Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of William Wallace Smith Bliss, LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President ...

(Realign) * Fort Des Moines *

Fort Devens Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Due to extensive environmental contamination it was li ...

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Fort Detrick Fort Detrick () is a United States Army Futures Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it ...

(Realign) * Fort Dix (Realign) *

Fort Douglas Camp Douglas was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In ...

Fort Holabird Fort Holabird was a United States Army post in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, active from 1918 to 1973. History Fort Holabird was located in the southeast corner of Baltimore and northwest of the suburban developments of Dundalk, Maryland, in s ...

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Fort Meade Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the ...

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Fort Monmouth Fort Monmouth is a former installation of the Department of the Army in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The post is surrounded by the communities of Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Oceanport, New Jersey, and is located about from the Atlantic Ocean. T ...

(Realign) * Fort Sheridan *

Fort Wingate Ammunition Storage Depot A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...

Fort Wingate Fort Wingate was a military installation near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two other locations in New Mexico called Fort Wingate: Seboyeta, New Mexico (1849–1862) and San Rafael, New Mexico (1862–1868). The most recent Fort Wingate (186 ...

George Air Force Base George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. Established by the United States Army Air C ...

Hamilton Army Airfield Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserves until 1976. It was transferred to the United States Army in 1983 ...

Indiana Army Ammunition Plant The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was an Army manufacturing plant built in 1941 between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants: * Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 ...

* Irwin Support Detachment Annex *

Jefferson Proving Ground The Jefferson Proving Ground (or JPG), located near Madison, Indiana, is a former munitions testing facility of Test and Evaluation Command of the United States Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command. The grounds of JPG serve as a wildl ...

* Kapalama Military Reservation Phase III *

Lexington Army Depot Lexington Army Depot is a former United States Army facility located in Avon, Kentucky. In 1964, it was paired with Blue Grass Army Depot to form Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. In 1999, the facility was closed after the recommendation of the 198 ...

* Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot *Manassas Family Housing *Manhattan Beach Housing *

Mather Air Force Base Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993 pursuant to a post-Cold War BRAC decision. It was located east of Sacramento, on the south side of U.S. Route 50 in Sacramento County, Californ ...

(Redirect) *Midway Housing Site * Navajo Depot Activity *

Naval Hospital Philadelphia The Philadelphia Naval Hospital was the first high-rise hospital building constructed by the United States Navy. At its 1935 opening it represented a state-of-the-art facility for the Navy with 650 beds and a total floor space of . The dedicated ...

* Naval Reserve Center Coconut Grove *

Naval Station Galveston Naval Station Lake Galveston, is a former United States Navy Naval Station. It was planned for operation in the 1980s during the creation of the Strategic Homeport program under the administration of President Ronald Reagan. It was recommended for ...

* Naval Station Lake Charles *

Naval Station New York Naval Station New York was a United States Navy Naval Station on Staten Island in New York City, closed in 1994. Opened in 1990, it was part of the Reagan administration's Strategic Homeport program. The station had two sections: a Strategic Ho ...

Naval Station Puget Sound Naval Station Puget Sound is a former United States Naval station located on Sand Point in Seattle, Washington. Today, the land is occupied by Magnuson Park. History After World War I, a movement was begun to build Naval Air Station Seattle a ...

Naval Station San Francisco A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...

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New Orleans Military Ocean Terminal New Orleans Military Ocean Terminal (NOMOT) was a large military ocean terminal at New Orleans, Louisiana. It served as a transfer point between rail, trucks, and ships for the import and export of weapons, ammunition, explosives and military equipm ...

*Nike Kansas City 30 *Nike New York 01 Housing *Nike New York 25 Housing *Nike New York 54 housing *Nike New York 60 housing *Nike New York 79/80 housing *Nike New York 93/94 *Nike New York 99 Housing *Nike Norfolk 85 Housing *Nike Philadelphia 41/43 * Nike Washington-Baltimore *

Norton Air Force Base Norton Air Force Base (1942–1994) was a United States Air Force facility east of downtown San Bernardino in San Bernardino County, California. Overview For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-l ...

Pease Air Force Base Pease, in Middle English, was a noun referring to the vegetable pea; see that article for its etymology. The word survives into modern English in pease pudding. Pease may also refer to: People * Pease family (Darlington), a prominent family in D ...

*Pittsburgh 02 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 03 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 25 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 37 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 42 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 43 Family Housing *Pittsburgh 52 Family Housing * Pontiac Storage Facility *

Presidio of San Francisco The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part o ...

Pueblo Army Depot Pueblo Depot Activity ''(PUDA)'', formerly known as the Pueblo Ordnance Depot and the Pueblo Army Depot, was a U.S. Army ammunition storage and supply facility. Responsibility for the depot fell upon the United States Army Ordnance Corps, and the f ...

(Realign) * Salton Sea Test Base *

St. Louis Area Support Center Wherry ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

housing *Sun Prairie Family Housing *

Tacony Warehouse The Tacony Warehouse was a storage facility located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was targeted for closure as part of the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Situated on 14.2 acres with eleven buildings, the structure was originally u ...

*USARC Addison Housing and Worth Family Housing * Umatilla Army Depot (Realign) *Woodbridge Housing Site *Youngs Lake Housing Site

References

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Commissioners

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See also

References

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