Who was selected as the Chairman of the BRAC 2005 Commission?
A3. Anthony J. Principi has been nominated by the President to serve as the chairman of the Commission. Secretary Principi has had a distinguished career in the public and private sectors and recently served as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He is a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, saw active duty aboard the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy and later commanded a river patrol unit in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Mr. Principi earned his law degree from Seton Hall University in 1975 and was assigned to the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps in San Diego, CA. In 1980, he was transferred to Washington as a legislative counsel for the Department of the Navy.
