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WHAT IS BRAC AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU?
The Department of Defense received Congressional authorization for a Base Realignment and Closure Round in 2005. BRAC is a means to achieve several goals: eliminate excess infrastructure; reshape our military; pursue jointness; optimize military readiness; and realize significant savings in support of transforming the Department of Defense.
At a minimum, BRAC 2005 must eliminate excess physical capacity, the operation, sustainment and recapitalization of which diverts scarce resources from defense capability. However, BRAC 2005 can make an even more profound contribution to transforming the Department by rationalizing our infrastructure with defense strategy. BRAC 2005 should be the means by which we reconfigure our current infrastructure into one in which operational capacity maximizes both warfighting capability and efficiency.
By creating joint organizational and basing solutions, we 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. Four of these recommendations will revolutionize not only military medical care and training but also research and development, and they directly affect San Antonio ...
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May 13, 2005
BRAC recommendations made public
Nov. 9, 2005
BRAC recommendations become law
July, 2006
San Antonio Integration Office (SAIO) established
Sept. 20, 2006
First Executive Integration Oversight Board (EIOB) meeting held
Aug. 20, 2007
First Executive Integration Oversight Board for Joint Basing meeting Held
Sept. 29, 2007
$92m construction contract awarded for Battlefield Health and Trauma
building
July, 2008
San Antonio Joint Program Office (SAJPO) established replacing SAIO
October, 2008
OSD Joint Basing conference in San Antonio
June, 2009
OSD Joint Basing Memorandum of Agreement workshop
July, 2009
"Embrace BRAC" kick-off event, Fort Sam Houston
July 31, 2009
502nd Air Base Wing stand-up ceremony
November 3, 2009
BRAC Town Hall meeting on KLRN public television
January 9, 2010
East Side Reinvestment Summit
February 2, 2010
12 MSG/CPTS inactivation/902 MSG/CPTS activation
37 MSG/CPTS inactivation/802 MSG/CPTS activation
April 3, 2010
Dr. CEM Maxwell, Deputy Director San Antonio Joint Program Office, talks about BRAC on KLUP radio
April 19, 2010
Army Installation Management Command groundbreaking ceremony
April 26, 2010
Ceremony for Ft. Sam Houston Garrison transfer to 502nd ABW
June 22, 2010
Wilford Hall Medical Center trauma care move to Brooke Army Medical Center but remains open as a fully accredited Emergency Department
July, 2010
Classes start at the new Medical Education and Training Campus (METC)
September 15, 2010
"One year to BRAC celebration" media event at Fort Sam Houston
September 21, 2010
Bi-monthly Executive Integration Oversight Board - Medical meeting goes
monthly
February, 2011
Battlefield Health and Trauma ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fort Sam Houston
Sept. 15, 2011
BRAC Complete
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The San Antonio Joint Program Office (formerly SAIO) was established in July 2006 to help implement the BRAC 2005 decisions affecting San Antonio, Texas.
What is BRAC? 