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BASES ON CURRENT BRAC REALIGNMENT/CLOSURE LIST

1. Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis, NM

2. Naval Base, Coronado, CA

3. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA

4. Navy Broadway Complex, San Diego, CA

5. Naval Support Activity, Corona, CA

6. Naval Base, Ventura City, CA

7. Marine Corps Logistics Base, Barstow, CA

8. Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA

9. Onizuka Air Force Station, CA

10. Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, CA

11. Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, Concord Detachment, CA

12. Hawthorne Army Depot, NV

13. Desert Chemical Depot, UT

14. Mountain Home Air Force Base, ID

15. Umatilla Chemical Depot, OR

16. Portland International Airport AGS, OR

17. McChord Air Force Base, WA

Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (not pictured)

BASES CLOSED 1988-2004

Arizona Williams Air Force Base, Mesa

California NAV ElecSysEngrCtr, San Diego; George Air Force Base, Victorville; Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino; Naval Station, Long Beach; Moffett NAS; Tustin MCAS; Castle Air Force Base, Atwater; Fort Ord, Marina; Presidio of San Francisco; Hunters Point Annex, San Francisco; Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento; Sacramento Army Depot, Sacramento; Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo; MCAS El Toro, Santa Ana; Naval Air Station, Alameda; Naval Aviation Depot, Alameda; Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA; Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco; Naval Training Center, San Diego; Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Oakland; Naval Shipyard, long Beach; McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento; Oakland Army Base; and Ontario IAP Air Guard Station

Colorado Lowry Air Force Base, Denver; Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Denver

Utah Fort Doulgas, Salt Lake City; Defense Distribution Depot, Ogden

Washington Naval Station, Puget Sound

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Related: Boom and bust, military style The military’s plan to close Cannon Air Force Base is being fought by nearby Clovis, N.M., a community that, like many in the West, has become spectacularly dependent on a single industry; Leavin' on a Jet Plane The Air Force wants to close Cannon Air Force Base, but the nearby town of Clovis, N.M., is not ready to let go of its main economic engine; Politics and currency Changing the face on the $50 bill; Charles Bowden on The War Next Door On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile War on Drugs takes a violent toll on the poorest people.; Sam Hamilton's Vision The Fish and Wildlife Director, a champion of "landscape-scale conservation," died last week.

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