Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Tyndall AFB, FL

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding leased space

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding NGA to Ft. Meade vice Ft. Belvoir

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Ft. McPherson and Ft. Gillen

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding TJCSG and MJCSG (Interim Reply)

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Naval Support Activity Corona, CA

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding NAVFAC EFD South

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding NRMW, Great Lakes

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Naval Support Activity Corona, CA

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Submarine Base, New London, CT

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding BOS cost for ARPC

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding leases and land ownership at ANG bases.

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding various Air Force Bases (Interim Reply)

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Air Force LSC/CIRF Initiatives

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Dyess Airspace

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding request for information reference ANG Bases

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Niagara Falls – Impact on other agencies

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Least Termination Cost at Pittsburg ARS - COBRA

I urge you to overturn the Department of Defense's BRAC recommendation to close Cannon Air Force Base. Cannon Air Force Base should not be on the BRAC closure list for many reasons. I've listed some of the key reasons below: Cannon does not fit the criteria provided for base closure. Cannon has an abundance of air space and no encroachment issues. This provides for safer and more realistic training scenarios for pilots.

Community Correspondence - 753 letters from the citizens in the surrounding community of Niagara Falls Air Force Reserve Base

Executive Correspondence from President George W. Bush to Chairman Principi approving the Commission's recommendations.

Executive Correspondence - Letters from James P. Maloney Maj. Gen. US Army, Retired, to each of the BRAC Commissioners regarding Fort Bliss, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and the Air Defense Artillery Center.

Executive Correspondence - Letter and supporting documents from Ohio Senator George V. Voinovich to the BRAC Commission Chairman Anthony J. Principi regarding the senator’s support to keep the Air Force Institute of Technology open at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Community Correspondence - In realization of the enormous task the BRAC Commission has been given; please accept this input. No one wants to have "their" local military base to close; your decisions will not be popular regardless of what closure decision you make. Therefore the decision needs to be based on something other than politics. Please consider these important facts regarding Cannon Air Force Base: 1. Clovis and Portales, NM are VERY small communities; the total population for both counties (per 2002 census) is only 63,062. The resulting economic impact from closure would be devastating simply due to the large economic impact Cannon has on these two small communities. We do not have lots of other industry and due to our location it is doubtful that other compensating industries can be developed. 2. The local weather conditions and the proximity to what is known locally as the Melrose bombing range (located between Ft. Sumner and Clovis south of Melrose) allows for y