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The Department of Defense (DoD) received Congressional authorization for a Base Realignment and Closure Round in 2005. BRAC is a means to achieve several goals: eliminate excess infrastructure; reshape the military; pursue jointness; optimize military readiness; and realize significant savings in support of transforming the DoD.
BRAC 2005 is designed to reconfigure current infrastructure into one in which operational capacity maximizes both war fighting capability and efficiency. By creating joint organizational and basing solutions, DoD will facilitate multi-service missions, reduce waste, save money, and free up resources to recruit quality people, modernize equipment and infrastructure, and develop the capabilities needed to meet 21st Century threats.
Under the BRAC Joint Basing plan for San Antonio, installation support functions at the Army's Fort Sam Houston will combine with those at Randolph and Lackland Air Force Bases to form what could be the largest base organization in the DoD when actions are completed by 2011. The Air Force is the lead agency for the San Antonio Joint Base, which is one of 12 locations where DoD functions will form joint bases. The others are:
Navy Lead
· Joint Base (JB) Pearl Harbor, Hickam, Hawaii
· Navy Base Guam-Andersen, Guam
· JB Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C.
· Naval Station Norfolk-Ft. Story, Va.
Army Lead
· JB Ft. Lewis-McChord, Wash.
· JB Ft. Myer-Henderson Hall, Va.
Air Force Lead
· Charleston-Naval Weapons Station Charleston, S.C.
· JB McGuire-Ft. Dix - Naval Air Station Lakehurst, N.J.
· JB Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington, Md.
· JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska
· Langley-Ft. Eustis, Va.
In San Antonio, more than 40 support functions at the joint base installations will combine to form the joint base wing, which a brigadier general will command, with three subordinate support groups, one at each San Antonio installation.
Support functions are designated by the following categories:
Command Support: safety, public affairs, legal, inspector general, procurement, chaplain, history, financial management
Community Services: morale, welfare & recreation, youth programs, family services, lodging operation
Environmental Services: compliance, pollution prevention, conservation, restoration
Facilities: utilities, pest control, custodial & refuse collection, grounds & pavement maintenance, real property leases, mgmnt & engineering
Fire & Emergency Services: fire department, emergence response services, readiness (crisis response)
Housing: family housing, dormitory management
Human Resources: military personnel, management analysis
Information Technology: IT services
Logistics: supply, munitions, laundry, vehicle operations, food services
Operational Mission Services: airfield operations, small arms & firing ranges
Security Services (military police): law enforcement, physical security, installation protection
This joint installation will service more DoD students than any other installation, more active runways than any other installation, more widely diverse tenant units and house DoD's largest hospital. |
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March 2008
Receive Joint Base Implementation Guide Supplemental Guidance
Determine Common Output Level Standards
Develop memorandum of agreements (MOA)
May 2008
Complete MOA version 1
Identify Air Base Wing headquarters
Schedule critical tasks for tabletop exercises
October 2008
Complete critical task exercises
De-conflict Army and Air Force transformation
Submit organizational change request
January 2009
Determine implementation plan costs
Validate implementation plan
Identify Air Base Wing key staff
May 2009
Complete MOA version 2
July 2009
Get approval of MOA
January 2010
Establish initial operating capability
Initiate transfer of command authority |
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What is Joint Basing? 