Editing Base Realignment and Closure (section)

===2005===
The Pentagon released its proposed list for the [[2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission]] on May 13, 2005 (a date given the moniker "BRAC Friday," a [[pun]] on [[Black Friday (shopping)|Black Friday]]). After an extensive series of public hearings, analysis of DoD-supplied supporting data, and solicitation of comments from the public, the list of recommendations was revised by the 9-member Defense Base Closure and Realignments Commission in two days of public markups and votes on individual recommendations (the proceedings were broadcast by [[C-SPAN]] and are available for review on the network's website). The Commission submitted its revised list to the President on September 8, 2005. The President approved the list and notified Congress on September 15. The [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] took up a joint resolution to disapprove the recommendations on October 26, but the resolution failed to pass. The recommendations were thereby enacted. The Secretary of Defense must implement the recommendations no later than September 15, 2011.

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Major facilities slated for closure included:
* [[Brooks Air Force Base]], Texas, renamed [[Brooks City-Base]] after [[San Antonio]] assumed control
* [[Defense Finance and Accounting Service]], New York (removed from list 2005)
* [[Ellsworth Air Force Base]], South Dakota (removed from list August 26, 2005)
* [[Fort Gillem]], Georgia
* [[Fort McPherson]], Georgia
* Fort Monmouth, New Jersey
* [[Fort Monroe]], Virginia
* [[Kulis Air National Guard Base]], Alaska
* [[Naval Air Station Brunswick]], Maine
* [[Naval Air Station Willow Grove|Naval Air Station Willow Grove Joint Reserve Base]], Pennsylvania
* [[Naval Station Ingleside]], Texas
* [[Naval Station Pascagoula]], Mississippi
* [[Naval Submarine Base New London]], Connecticut (removed from list August 24, 2005)
* [[Navy Supply Corps School (Athens, Georgia)|Navy Supply Corps School]]
* [[Otis Air National Guard Base]], Massachusetts (removed from list August 26, 2005)
* [[Portsmouth Naval Shipyard]], Kittery, Maine (removed from list August 26, 2005)

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Major facilities slated for realignment include:
* [[Army Human Resource Command]] (HRC), Missouri, moving to the [[Fort Knox]] Military Installation in Kentucky
* [[Cannon Air Force Base]], New Mexico 
* [[Eielson Air Force Base]], Alaska
* [[Elmendorf Air Force Base]], Alaska
* [[Fort Belvoir]], Virginia
* Fort Meade, Maryland
* Fort Novosel, Alabama, Aviation Technical Test Center moving to the [[Redstone Arsenal]], Alabama and combining with the [[Redstone Technical Test Center]] to form [[U.S. Army Redstone Test Center]]
* [[Grand Forks Air Force Base]], North Dakota
* [[Naval Air Station Oceana]], Virginia (extent contingent on reopening the former [[Naval Air Station Cecil Field]] in Florida)
* [[Naval Station Great Lakes]], Illinois
* [[Pope Air Force Base]], North Carolina (transferred to the U.S. Army as Pope Army Airfield and merged with [[Fort Bragg]])
* [[Rome Laboratory]], New York
* [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]], Washington, D.C.

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Twenty-six bases were realigned into 12 [[joint base]]s, with each joint base's installation support being led by the [[United States Army|Army]], the Air Force, or the Navy.<ref>See [http://www2.hickam.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-091105-033.ppt#4 Joint Base Background (part 4 of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam webpage)]{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (on Hickam AFB's official website). Retrieved 2010-06-18. To access other parts of the webpage, go to the bottom of the right scroll bar and click on the down arrow (or the "page-down" double arrow). To go to earlier parts of the webpage, click on the up arrow (or the "page-up" double arrow). See [[Hickam Air Force Base#Internet webpage]] for a partial list of the webpage parts that discuss joint basing and BRAC.</ref> An example is [[Joint Base Lewis–McChord]], Washington, combining [[Fort Lewis (Washington)|Fort Lewis]] and [[McChord Field|McChord Air Force Base]].