The BRAC commission just voted to remove Ellsworth from the closing list. More to come. The vote was 8 to 1.
UPDATE: Here is a report on the decision. Excerpt:
But the commission found that closing Ellsworth wouldn't save any money over 20 years, and that it actually would cost nearly $20 million to move the planes to the Texas base. The Pentagon had projected saving $1.8 billion over two decades with the closure.
"We have no savings, we're essentially moving the airplanes from one very, very good base to another very, very good base, which are essentially equal," commissioner Harold Gehman said about the proposal.
UPDATE: Mount Blogmore has started a thread.
UPDATE: More from the Aberdeen News.
