What is the process for establishing Joint Base Lewis-McChord?
The senior representatives of Fort Lewis and McChord AFB direct and manage the implementation process with the Joint Base Partnership Council. The planning staff of both installations supports the JBPC with the Joint Base Executive Committee. Joint teams from both bases form functional working groups to consolidate all of the activities and functions necessary to operate the base. Their work will lead to a memorandum of agreement that describes the functions to be performed on JBLM and the responsibilities of the Army and Air Force for those functions. When the memorandum is signed by the vice chiefs of staff of the Army and Air Force, it will be the framework of how the base will operate.
