How is the Air Force going to apply the realignment and closure strategies successfully used in the past to BRAC 2005 implementation?
The Air Force will expedite the beneficial reuse of a closed military installation to put it back on the local tax rolls so it can provide the kind of economic benefit to the local community that it can. The Air Force is trying to balance its strategies with a mixed toolkit. Within that mixed toolkit, to the extent that it has assets, it should seek and will seek to sell those where possible, assuming that they are not the subject of a public benefit conveyance or other process. Back to Table of Contents 15. AIR FORCE BRAC SUCCESSES/LESSONS LEARNED (Statement by Mr. Philip Grone, deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and environment, before Congress, March 2005) We’re taking a very good hard look at lessons learned from the past from prior rounds of BRAC and taking into account the comments that we received from a number of sources to include members who have expressed concern about the disposal process over the years, including members of this committee. I’ve spoken about
